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Wuthering Heights

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ISBN-10: 0141439556

ISBN-13: 9780141439556

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Emily Bronte, Pauline Nestor, Lucasta Miller

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At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
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Book details

List price: $8.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates: The Life of Emily Bronte
The Chronology of Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
Volume 1
Volume 2
Contexts
Biographical
Biographical Sketch
Emily Bronte in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
Writings
from "Diary Papers" (1834-1845)
"The Cat" (translation) (1842)
Charlotte Bronte's Selection of Poems by Ellis Bell (1850)
Charlotte Bronte on Ellis Bell
from "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell" (1850)
from "Editor's Preface" (1850)
Historical, Social, and Legal
Heathcliff and the Unsettled Classes
Nomads of City and Country
Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor (1861)
Self-Made Men and Luddites
Samuel Smiles, from Self-Help (1859)
Women's Rights and Roles
Ellis Bell and Sarah Stickney Ellis
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England, Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839)
Harriet Martineau, from "On Female Education" (1823)
Wills, Women, and Property
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, from A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854)
A Tale of Two Houses: Interiors and Servants
Interiors
John Ruskin, from "The Nature of Gothic," The Stones of Venice (1851-1853)
Domestic Servants
Isabella Beeton, from The Book of Household Management (1861)
Regional and Popular
Where Are the Brontes From?
Ireland, Heathcliff, and the Brontes
William Wright, from The Brontes in Ireland (1893)
Yorkshire: Regionalism, Dialect, and Ballads
Regionalism
Elizabeth Gaskell, from The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
Dialect
Richard Blakeborough, from Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1898)
Ballads
Anonymous, "The Ghaist's Warning" (1812)
Pilgrims to Haworth
Matthew Arnold, from "Haworth Churchyard, April 1855" (1877)
Claude Meeker, from "Haworth; Home of the Brontes" (1895)
Virginia Woolf, from "Haworth, November 1904" (1904)
Shifting Literary Honors and the Beaten Track
Critical and Artful
Reviews of Wuthering Heights, 1848-1851
from Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper (January 1848)
from Atlas (January 1848)
G. W. P[eck], from "Wuthering Heights," The American Review (June 1848)
[E. P. Whipple], from "Novels of the Season," North American Review (October 1848)
[George Henry Lewes], from The Leader (December 1850)
[Sydney Dobell], from Eclectic Review (February 1851)
Early Criticism
Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "Emily Bronte" (1883)
Angus M. MacKay, from The Brontes: Fact and Fiction (1897)
Mary A. Ward [Mrs. Humphry Ward], from "Introduction," Wuthering Heights, Haworth Edition (1900)
May Sinclair, from The Three Brontes (1912)
Virginia Woolf, from "Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights" (1916)
Sites and Resources on the Brontes
Exhibits
Selected Web sites
Adaptations and Translations
Performances
Film/Television Adaptations
Some Translations
Some Sequels, Pendants, and Biographical Fiction
Further Reading
General Resources and Biographical Studies
Popular Reception and Travels to Bronte Country
Selected Criticism Since 1995