Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights - Hardcover

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights - Hardcover

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by Emily Bronte (Author)

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Wuthering Heights is an intense and deeply psychological novel about the destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, set on the moody Yorkshire moors of England. Charlotte Bronte remarked that the novel is "rustic all through. It is moorish and wild and knotty as a root of heath. Nor was it natural that it should be otherwise; the author being herself a native and nursling of the moors."

First published in 1847, it remains shocking and relevant today for its unflinching portrayal of toxic love, intergenerational trauma, social class warfare, and the untamed darkness of the human heart. Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a masterpiece because it shattered Victorian norms and essentially reinvented the gothic genre, influencing generations of writers and artists with its sheer emotional power and innovative structure.

This book has matching lined and blank journals sold separately. They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own.

Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 1.1 x 7 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: September 27, 2018
ISBN9781912714070
Author Emily Bronte
PublisherChiltern Publishing
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Emily Bronte

Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818, at Thornton in Yorkshire, the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. Both of Emily's parents had literary leanings; her mother published one essay, and her father wrote four books and dabbled in poetry. In 1821, shortly after Emily's third birthday, Maria died of cancer. Maria's sister, Elizabeth, came to live as a housekeeper and was responsible for training the girls in the household arts. Although Emily did spend a few short times away from Haworth, it was her primary residence and the rectory where she resided now serves as a Bronte Museum. Emily's only close friends were her brother Branwell and her sisters Charlotte and Anne. Emily died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848, also at the age of thirty, and never knew the great success of her only novel Wuthering Heights, which was published almost exactly a year before her death on December 19, 1848. From the opinions of those who knew her well, Emily emerges as a reserved, courageous woman with a commanding will and manner. In the biographical note to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte attributes to her sister a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero.

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