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Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte
Introduction by Diane Johnson

By Emily Bronte
Introduction by Diane Johnson

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte
Introduction by Katherine Frank

By Emily Bronte
Introduction by Katherine Frank

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte

By Emily Bronte
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By Emily Bronte
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    About Wuthering Heights

    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 Bronte’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.

    About Wuthering Heights

    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Wuthering Heights,     first published in 1847, the year before the author’s death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. “Only Emily Brontë,” V.S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, “exposes her imagination to the dark spirit.” And Virginia Woolf wrote, “It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar.” 

    This Modern Library edition contains a biographical note, a preface by the author’s sister Charlotte Brontë, an Introduction by Diane Johnson, and commentary by George Henry Lewes, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster. This edition also includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide.

    About Wuthering Heights

    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Wuthering Heights,     first published in 1847, the year before the author’s death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. “Only Emily Brontë,” V.S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, “exposes her imagination to the dark spirit.” And Virginia Woolf wrote, “It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar.”

    About Wuthering Heights

    The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them.

    Virginia Woolf said of Emily Brontë that her writing could “make the wind blow and the thunder roar,” and so it does in Wuthering Heights. Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and the windswept moors that are the setting of their mythic love are as immediately stirring to the reader of today as they have been for every generation of readers since the novel was first published in 1847. With an introduction by Katherine Frank.

    About Wuthering Heights

    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Wuthering Heights,     first published in 1847, the year before the author’s death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. “Only Emily Brontë,” V.S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, “exposes her imagination to the dark spirit.” And Virginia Woolf wrote, “It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar.”

    About Wuthering Heights

    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Wuthering Heights,     first published in 1847, the year before the author’s death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. “Only Emily Brontë,” V.S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, “exposes her imagination to the dark spirit.” And Virginia Woolf wrote, “It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar.”

    This Modern Library edition contains a biographical note and preface by the author’s sister Charlotte Brontë, and an Introduction by Diane Johnson.

    About Wuthering Heights

    “After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. ‘I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.’
    ‘I think that may be the point,’ I disagreed. ‘Their love is their only redeeming quality.'”
    —Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
     
    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 Bronte’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.

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    About Emily Bronte

    Emily Jane Brontë 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… More about Emily Bronte

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    Emily Jane Brontë 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… More about Emily Bronte

    About Emily Bronte

    Emily Jane Brontë 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… More about Emily Bronte

    About Emily Bronte

    Emily Jane Brontë 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… More about Emily Bronte

    About Emily Bronte

    Emily Jane Brontë 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… More about Emily Bronte

    About Emily Bronte

    Emily Jane Brontë 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… More about Emily Bronte

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    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 07, 2009 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307455185

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 28, 2000 | 464 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375756443

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Mass Market Paperback | $4.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Oct 01, 1983 | 336 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553212587

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Hardcover | $25.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 15, 1991 | 544 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405436

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Sep 30, 2003 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780553898026

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Romance

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 14, 1999 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780679640004

    Category: Literary Fiction | Romance | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Nov 17, 2009 | 671 Minutes | ISBN 9780307736543

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