WUTHERING HEIGHTS [Ultimate Edition] The Complete Original Classic Including Bonus Photos, Illustrations, & Entire Audiobook

by Emily Brontë, Featuring Dynamic Chapter Navigation & Professional Formatting for a Premium Reading Experience, Published By Northpointe Classics

Overview

WUTHERING HEIGHTS [Ultimate Edition] The Complete Original Classic Including Bonus Photos, Illustrations, & Entire Audio Narration

*** Featuring Dynamic Chapter Navigation Links & Professional Formatting for a Premium Reading Experience.

Wuthering Heights is the only published novel by Emily Brontë, written between October 1845 and June 1846 and published in July of the following year. It was not printed until December 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre. A posthumous second edition was edited by Charlotte in 1850.

The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them.

Today considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews and controversy when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. Although Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was generally considered the best of the Brontë sisters' works during most of the nineteenth century, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that it was a superior achievement. Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, three operas (by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin), a role-playing game, and the 1978 chart-topping song by Kate Bush.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016164489
Publisher:	Northpointe
Publication date:	12/31/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Emily Jane Brontë July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.