Wuthering Heights (ApeBook Classics; engl.) (Victorian Writers) - Softcover

Brontė, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3961300232 ISBN 13: 9783961300235

Publisher: apebook, 2016

Synopsis

"Wuthering Heights" is the only novel of English author Emily Brontė (1818-1848). It was first published in 1847, though under the author“s pen name Ellis Bell.------Mr. Earnshaw finds a presumably orphaned boy on the streets of Liverpool and takes him to Wuthering Heights. There the boy, who is named Heathcliff then, grows close with Earnshaw“s daughter Catherine. When they have become young adults, there is a deep love between them. But one day Edgar Linton, a young man of higher social status, proposes marriage to Catherine. The young woman makes a fatal decision.------Although contemporary critics considered the novel controversial because of its mental and physical cruelty, nowadays "Wuthering Heights" is a classic of 19th century literature. Some argue that the novel is even superior to "Jane Eyre", which is also one of the most-loved novels ever. There are several dramatic adaptations of "Wuthering Heights", including film, radio, TV, opera and music.------“A fiend of a book — an incredible monster [...] The action is laid in hell, — only it seems places and people have English names there.” (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) ------ “A monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us.” (Clement Shorter) ------ “The greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date.” (Anthony Ludovici) ------ “Emily was inspired by some more general conception. [...] She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book.” (Virginia Woolf)

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Book Description

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is edited by Richard Hoyes, Head of English and Media Studies, Farnham College, Surrey.

From the Publisher

"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: apebook
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3961300232
• ISBN 13: 9783961300235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276