Wuthering Heights (Illustrated)

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Emily Brontë

This Top Five Classics edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights includes:• 12 starkly beautiful woodcut illustrations by renowned artist Clare Leighton (the inspiration for the sets of the classic 1939 Laurence Olivier–Merle Oberon film adaptation)• The complete, unabridged, carefully proofread text• Charlotte Brontë’s preface and biographical notice to the 1850 edition• A helpful introduction and author bioWuthering Heights was released in 1847 in the shadow of the instantly successful Jane Eyre, published two months earlier by her older sister Charlotte. It enjoyed only mixed reviews—but the reactions were intense, foreshadowing the eventual stature the novel would claim in the pantheon of English literature, surpassing in many readers’ eyes even her sister’s magnum opus. Though Emily would not live to see it, Wuthering Heights would become synonymous with passionate gothic romance and tragic love, establishing Heathcliff and Catherine as the most poignantly doomed couple in fiction since Romeo & Juliet, but with far darker consequences for everyone involved.

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Author

Emily Brontë

Pages

368

Publisher

Top Five Books LLC

Published Date

2014-08-22

ISBN

1938938224 9781938938221

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"Enjoyed this book (the audible narration by Joanne Froggatt is amazing), but all of the characters are so unlikable! "

Manon

"My all time favorite Gothic Novel"

Sarah Hanratty

"I think so!! I read it almost once a year."

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Nicci Keizer

"Dark and emotional. At times angering yet I didn’t want it to end. "

angela haar

"Yes definitely. I should add that I read it in school so I was able to analyze and delve deep into it more so than I would have had I read it alone which led me to appreciate it more. Still a solid book."

Dawit Tibebu

"A story of persevering through spite."

Sarah Coylle

"the characters are amazing, the dialogue is so raw and emotional, and the story+worldbuilding is superb. one of the most gripping stories i’ve ever read "

Patrick Baue

"It's one of my favorite romantic classics, second only to Jane Eyre. Hope you enjoy it!"

De Ge

"How I adore it! Lyrical and amazing, I've loved getting pulled under by the dreamy prose of one the ONLY novels I have read multiple times. It's just so very poetic and lush."