Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, published by Penguin on January 24, 2012, is a classic work of fiction that has captivated readers since its first release in 1847. This edition spans 394 pages and includes a biographical note and preface by Charlotte Brontë, along with an introduction by Diane Johnson. The novel presents a complex narrative that explores themes of passion, revenge, and the tumultuous relationships between its characters, set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
Readers will find that Wuthering Heights delves into the darker aspects of human nature and emotion, showcasing Brontë’s unique literary style. The story revolves around the intense and often destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, illustrating the impact of their tumultuous relationship on those around them. This edition not only highlights the novel’s enduring significance in literary history but also invites readers to engage with its rich characterizations and atmospheric setting.
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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.”
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