Wuthering Heights

Name: Wuthering Heights
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ISBN: 9780198834786

Emily Brontë, John Bugg (Professor of English, Fordham University)

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English

Worlds Classics
01 October 2020

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Romance

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff and Catherine find refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of Catherine's dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home to the Yorkshire moors. But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff's attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Brontë wrings all of its terrifying potential. A regional novel with a global reach, a work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core, Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and wrenching study of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence. This edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Brontë.

By: Emily Brontë
Edited by: John Bugg (Professor of English Fordham University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780198834786
ISBN 10: 0198834780
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 October 2020
Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Bugg is Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2013) and editor of The Joseph Johnson Letterbook (Oxford UP, 2016). His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, TLS, Romanticism, and several other journals