Wuthering Heights - Softcover

Emily Bronte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580493947 ISBN 13: 9781580493949

Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Brontė’s complex characters and vocabulary. We hope that Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Editions™ will make your reading more enjoyable and perhaps more meaningful.

A midnight storm rages around lonely Wuthering Heights, and a miserable ghost claws at the window. We are taken backwards in time, to the beginning of the story of the Earnshaws and Lintons: the separation of spiritual twins, the bitter, repeated clashes, and the doom that seems inescapable for these two families. The tale unravels in a bleak environment that seems hostile to human life and love. But the savagery at work outside is nothing compared to the cruelty the characters inflict upon one another. Wuthering Heights illustrates the violent ruin of passionate natures as few other novels have.

Solitude, pain, and loss were all part of Emily Brontė’s own life. In creating her 1847 masterpiece, she drew upon her childhood experiences in an isolated English home much like Wuthering Heights. But she also relied upon her brilliant imagination and a superb talent for detail to depict the finest nuances of her characters’ language, gestures, and dress.

About this title

Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is edited by Richard Hoyes, Head of English and Media Studies, Farnham College, Surrey.

From the Publisher:

This book is perfect for AP classes and is often selected for inclusion on the AP exam. The notes, reading pointers, and vocabulary in this addition will also help students at a lower reading level get the most out of these classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1580493947
• ISBN 13: 9781580493949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312