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Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
Emily Bronte
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Description for Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
Paperback. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Series: Vintage Classics Bronte Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 286.
Rediscover Emily Brontë's powerful tale of love, violence and obsession.
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then'
Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.
Emily Brontë's novel remains a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion.
'A dark and passionate tale of tortured but enduring love... Mesmerising' Guardian
VINTAGE CLASSICS BRONTE SERIES - beautiful editions, three iconic stories, three extraordinary women.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Vintage Classics Bronte Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784870744
SKU
V9781784870744
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About Emily Bronte
Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818. Her father was curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, and her mother died when she was five years old, leaving five daughters and one son. In 1824 Charlotte, Maria, Elizabeth and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymen's daughters, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. The children were taught at home from this point on and together they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored by writing stories. Emily worked briefly as a teacher in 1938 but soon returned home. In 1846, Emily’s poems were published alongside those of her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The following year Wuthering Heights was published. Emily Brontë died of consumption on 19 December 1848.
Reviews for Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
Emily Bronte’s Tale of all-consuming love is an omnipotent force to be reckoned with. It’s an intoxicating read
Marie Claire
A beautiful gift, and perfect gems for bookworms.
So Darling
A dark and passionate tale of tortured but enduring love... Mesmerising
Guardian
This brilliantly atmospheric Yorkshire saga has only one drawback - Emily never wrote another novel. For me, it is both fantastic but also true to life because the protagonists have such believably fierce emotions
Kate Mosse When I was 16 I read Wuthering Heights for the first time, and I read it as a kind of oracle; that life is worth nothing if it is not worth everything. Disaster does not matter, intensity does. You can dilute Wuthering Heights, as Mills & Boon and musicals have done. But if you are honest, you cannot escape its central stark premise; all or nothing. The all is not Heathcliff - that is the sentimental version. The all is what Heathcliff represents, which is life itself
Jeanette Winterson Only Emily Brontë exposes her imagination to the dark spirit
V. S. Pritchett Hers...is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts...by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar
Virginia Woolf Commonly thought of as 'romantic', but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Brontë's characters subject one another to extremes of physical and psychological violence
Sarah Waters Lambasted when it came out as irredeemably perverse and, I quote, as practically "French"'
A. L. Kennedy The greatest love story ever told, Heathcliff the hero being a wild, stormy, gothic fellow who will not rest until his beloved Cathy is in his arms again, even though she died some years previously. My favourite moment comes when he bribes the sexton who buried Cathy to bury him next to her, with the sides of their coffins left open, so when they're dug up 50 years hence nobody will know which bones are his, and which are hers
Patrick McGrath
Marie Claire
A beautiful gift, and perfect gems for bookworms.
So Darling
A dark and passionate tale of tortured but enduring love... Mesmerising
Guardian
This brilliantly atmospheric Yorkshire saga has only one drawback - Emily never wrote another novel. For me, it is both fantastic but also true to life because the protagonists have such believably fierce emotions
Kate Mosse When I was 16 I read Wuthering Heights for the first time, and I read it as a kind of oracle; that life is worth nothing if it is not worth everything. Disaster does not matter, intensity does. You can dilute Wuthering Heights, as Mills & Boon and musicals have done. But if you are honest, you cannot escape its central stark premise; all or nothing. The all is not Heathcliff - that is the sentimental version. The all is what Heathcliff represents, which is life itself
Jeanette Winterson Only Emily Brontë exposes her imagination to the dark spirit
V. S. Pritchett Hers...is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts...by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar
Virginia Woolf Commonly thought of as 'romantic', but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Brontë's characters subject one another to extremes of physical and psychological violence
Sarah Waters Lambasted when it came out as irredeemably perverse and, I quote, as practically "French"'
A. L. Kennedy The greatest love story ever told, Heathcliff the hero being a wild, stormy, gothic fellow who will not rest until his beloved Cathy is in his arms again, even though she died some years previously. My favourite moment comes when he bribes the sexton who buried Cathy to bury him next to her, with the sides of their coffins left open, so when they're dug up 50 years hence nobody will know which bones are his, and which are hers
Patrick McGrath