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Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë
Series: Vintage Classics
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Wuthering Heights tells the haunting and tormented love story of Heathcliff, a troubled orphan, and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his wealthy benefactor. Set against the bleak and windswept moors, their passionate yet doomed relationship leads to betrayal and bitter vengeance, a drama that continues to haunt the next generation long after their deaths. This gothic masterpiece blends elements of ghost stories, poetic allegory, and intense emotion.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who appreciate classic literature, gothic romance, and complex explorations of passion and revenge.

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"Wuthering Heights," first published in 1847, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. This edition contains a biographical note and Preface by the author's sister Charlotte Bront, and an Introduction by Diane Johnson.

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Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.

Published in 1847, the year before Emily Brontë's death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth century's most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactor's daughter, Catherine.

Through Catherine's betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Incorporating elements of many genres—from gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegory—and transcending them all, Wuthering Heights is a mystifying and powerful tour de force.

Series: Vintage Classics

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Virginia Woolf praised the novel, saying, "It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780307455185

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Margot Livesey

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 278g

Pages: 400

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Classic Fiction Emily Bronte Emily Brontë Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage Classics

About the Author

Emily Jane Bronte was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly-knit, English provincial family. Born in 1818, she shared the parsonage of the town of Haworth, Yorkshire, with her older sister, Charlotte, her brother, Branwell, her younger sister, Anne, and her father, The Reverend Patrick Bronte. All five were poets and writers; all but Branwell would publish at least one book. Fantasy was the Bronte children's one relief from the rigors of religion and the bleakness of life in an impoverished region. They invented a series of imaginary kingdoms and constructed a whole library of journals, stories, poems, and plays around their inhabitants. Emily's special province was a kingdom she called Gondal, whose romantic heroes and exiles owed much to the poems of Byron. Brief stays at several boarding schools were the sum of her experiences outside Haworth until 1842, when she entered a school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. After a year of study and teaching there, they felt qualified to announce the opening of a school in their own home, but could not attract a single pupil. In 1845 Charlotte Bronte came across a manuscript volume of her sister's poems. She knew at once, she later wrote, that they were "not at all like poetry women generally write...they had a peculiar music-wild, melancholy, and elevating." At her sister's urging, Emily's poems, along with Anne's and Charlotte's, were published pseudonymously in 1846. An almost complete silence greeted this volume, but the three sisters, buoyed by the fact of publication, immediately began to write novels. Emily's effort was Wuthering Heights; appearing in 1847 it was treated at first as a lesser work by Charlotte, whose Jane Eyre had already been published to great acclaim. Emily Bronte's name did not emerge from behind her pseudonym of Ellis Bell until the second edition of her novel appeared in 1850. In the meantime, tragedy had struck the Bronte family. In September of 1848 Branwell had succumbed to a life of dissipation. By December, after a brief illness, Emily too was dead; her sister Anne would die the next year. Wuthering Heights, Emily's only novel, was just beginning to be understood as the wild and singular work of genius that it is. "Stronger than a man," wrote Charlotte, "Simpler than a child, her nature stood alone."

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