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Wuthering Heights
Contributor(s): Brontė, Emily (Author)
ISBN: 0486292568     ISBN-13: 9780486292564
Publisher: Dover Publications
OUR PRICE:   $9.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1996
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Annotation: Emily Bronte's only novel appeared to mixed reviews in 1847, a year before her death at the age of thirty. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, and in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors of its setting, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with a disregard for convention, an instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology that make it one of the greatest novels of passion ever written.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 96020636
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.28" W x 8.26" (0.43 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Bront , was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance played out against the lonely moors of northern England, the book proved to be one of the most enduring classics of English literature.
The turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff spans two generations -- from the time Heathcliff, a strange, coarse young boy, is brought to live on the Earnshaws' windswept estate, through Cathy's marriage to Edgar Linton and Heathcliff's plans for revenge, to Cathy's death years later and the eventual union of the surviving Earnshaw and Linton heirs.
A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, Wuthering Heights (the author's only novel) remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.