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An edition of ↪ /works/OL15035771W (1847)

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

  • 3.92 ·
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  • 255 Have read

From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wuthering Heights, edited by Alison Booth, presents Emily Bronte's haunting, brilliant novel freshly edited, smartly annotated, and illuminated by various contexts.

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The text is enriched by poems, diaries, and memoirs, from Brontë to Virginia Woolf.
This illustrated edition is unique in locating Wuthering Heights in its region as well as period, while it follows every phase of the Brontë renown, from tourism to adaptations, from early reviews to recent critical trends.
Alison's Booth's extraordinary edition will fascinate students of the Brontës, the novel, female literature, the gothic, and the fraught conflicts of Victorian literary imagination.

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Publisher
Pearson Longman
Language
English
Pages
432

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Wuthering Heights
2021-08, [publisher not identified]
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Wuthering Heights
2020, [publisher not identified]
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Wuthering Heights
2018, Standard Ebooks
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Cumbres borrascosas
2016 August 04, LibriVox
Digital Audio in Spanish
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Wuthering Heights
2013-06-12, LibriVox
Digital Audio in English
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Wuthering Heights
2012, Splinter
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Wuthering Heights
2009, Pearson Longman
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Wuthering Heights
2009 May 18, LibriVox
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2008-01-23, LibriVox
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2004, Pax Forlag A/S
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Wuthering Heights
1998, Oxford University Press
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1996-12-01, Project Gutenberg
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1993, W. W. Norton & Company
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1989-07, Econo-Clad Books
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1963, Heinemann
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Wuthering Heights
1961, Dolphin
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xxxx, Thames Publishing Co.
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Top Withins
High Sunderland
"Gun Portrait" from Marion Harland
Portrait
Several illustrations from Bronte Society Transactions:
Main Street, Haworth
Haworth Old Church
The Birthplace of the Bronte Sisters, Thornton
The Black Bull
Branwell Bronte's Chair
The Waterfall on the Moor
Haworth Parsonage
Emily Bronte, drawing of Keeper
Haworth Parsonage
Facscimile Title Page of First Edition
About This Edition
Introduction
Chronologies
Text of Wuthering Heights
Notes
Contexts
Biographical
Emily and Anne Bronte, "Diary Note"
Charlotte Bronte, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell"
"Editor's Preface"
Ellen Nussey on Emily
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life Of Charlotte Bronte on Emily
Emily Bronte, Poems
Historical, Social, and Legal
Inheritance, Law, and Women
From Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important
LawConcerning Women (London: Chapman, 1854)
Class, Urban Culture, and Mobility
Urban Slums and Street Children
Self-Help
Houses, Home Decor, and Consumer Goods
From Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste
From John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
Regional and International
Ireland
Family History
William Wright, The Brontes In Ireland
The Great Hunger
Yorkshire
Dialect
From Richard Blakesborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the Nortern Riding of Yorkshire, 1898
Religion
Literacy: Summary and Quotation from J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels
Haworth and Vicinity
Original Locations
Memoirs and Pilgrimages
C. Holmes Cautley, "Old Haworth Folk Who Knew the Brontes," 1910
Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904"
Sylvia Plath
Muriel Spark
The Bronte Society and Parsonage Museum
From Claude Meeker, "Haworth: Home of the Brontes," 1895
Critical and Artful
Reviews
Early Criticism
Sequels, Adaptations, Films
Further Reading
Web materials

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-432).

Published in
New York, USA
Series
Longman cultural editions
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Wuthering Heights

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4172 .W7 2009

Contributors

Editor
Alison Booth

The Physical Object

Format
Softcover
Pagination
xxxi, 432 p. :
Number of pages
432

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21321246M
ISBN 10
0321212983
ISBN 13
9780321212986
LCCN
2007047394
OCLC/WorldCat
181910144
Google
3P1mAAAAMAAJ
Library Thing
1538
Goodreads
432393

Work Description

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

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