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| Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Emily Bronte
Creator: Daphne Merkin
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Category: Book
List Price: $7.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 15188
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 1593083610
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781593083618
ASIN: 1593083610
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Condition: NOTE: * PAPERBACK * New Bantam Classic ed. paperback I purchased and never read. Minor shelfwear, otherwise PRISTINE, as this book has never been read and only handled a few times as you will see. NO remainder mark. Thanks for considering my book. 100% guaranteed ships day order received in secure bubble pack.
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Product Description
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Emily Bronte’s only novel, Wuthering Heights remains one of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them.
Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language. Daphne Merkin is the author of a novel, Enchantment, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant award for best new work of American-Jewish fiction, and an essay collection, Dreaming of Hitler. She has written essays and reviews for publications that include American Scholar, the New York Times, where she is a regular contributor to the Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Elle, and Vogue.
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Dont miss out*S* February 22, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
These books should still be required reading. HOW AWESOME and timeless.
Thank you
Bronte wrote in this book July 15, 2007
"I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness."
One should become, to some extent, acquainted with the Yorkshire Moors, the 18th century and be fully prepared to realize that Emily Bronte was in love with death, then let her take you there. You can come back--she didn't.
Interesting... December 16, 2007
After reading "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, I knew I had to read her sister's only novel. Quite an interesting contrast to the love story of "Jane Eyre," but unique and worthwhile nonetheless. A great classic by a 19th century female writer...read it!
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