Catherine Earnshaw had no idea that the boy her father took in from the streets of Liverpool would one day become her lover, her soul mate. Nor did she know that her decision to marry someone else would send him down the path of destruction. Once a novel criticised for its display of mental and physical cruelty, Wuthering Heights is now a considered a 19th century classic. It's themes of gender inequality and violence driven by passion still resonate with readers today.
The introduction and appendices to this Broadview edition, which place Brontë’s life and novel in the context of the developing “Brontë myth,” explore the impact of industrialization on the people of Yorkshire, consider the ...
Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire’s limestone north and moorland south, drawing out ...
This new edition explores its extraordinary power and unique style and narrative structure, and includes a selection of poems by Emily Brontë.
If you need a little help understanding it, let BookCaps help with this study guide. Along with chapter-by-chapter summaries and analysis, this book features the full text of Brontë's classic novel is also included.
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. HeathcliffÕs dwelling. ÔWutheringÕ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Wuthering Heights includes a Biographical Note and Foreward by Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
Special thanks to a few of the members of that class who did this assignment with unusual diligence: Sarah Seigle, Carissa Anderson, Matty Burns, and Bridget Byers. John Kulka, my editor at Harvard University Press, was an incisive and ...
This special edition contains edits specifically aimed at assisting readers in understanding the classic text, preparing students for examinations, or providing lesson plans for teachers.
This illustrated edition of "Wuthering Heights" includes: Illustrations of objects and places mentioned in the novel. Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under her pen name Ellis Bell.
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire...