| Wuthering Heights Contributor(s): Brontė, Emily (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307455181 ISBN-13: 9780307455185 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: 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 Bronte," 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 a 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 Bronte, and an Introduction by Diane Johnson. "From the Hardcover edition." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009291390 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.2" W x 8.06" (0.63 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |