Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two landowning families living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' ethnically uncertain foster son, Heathcliff. …
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two landowning families living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' ethnically uncertain foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession and revenge, the novel, influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction, is considered a classic of English literature. Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. The first American edition was published in April 1848 by Harper & Brothers of New York. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850. Though contemporaneous reviews were polarised, Wuthering Heights has come to be considered one of the greatest novels written in English. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system. It has inspired an array of adaptations across several types of media.
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- 1538
- BNF ID:
- 12034945g
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Wuthering Heights
Paperback, 352 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 2009 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-310543-5Copied ISBN!
Wuthering Heights
Paperback, 352 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 2009 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-310543-5Copied ISBN!
Wuthering heights
513 pages
English language
Published 1976 by Oxford University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-812511-2Copied ISBN!
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- 535405
Wuthering Heights
248 pages
English language
Published Sept. 24, 1996 by Dover Publications.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-486-29256-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 526390
Wuthering Heights
432 pages
English language
Published 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-321-21298-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 432393
Wuthering Heights
315 pages
English language
Published 1985 by Bantam Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-21258-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 58041717
Wuthering Heights
416 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 2002
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-143955-6Copied ISBN!
Wuthering Heights
432 pages
English language
Published 2002
- ISBN:
- 978-0-393-97889-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 58032262
Wuthering Heights
544 pages
English language
Published 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-951159-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1573192
Wuthering Heights
376 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119908-5Copied ISBN!
Wuthering Heights
353 pages
English language
Published 1995 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-043418-7Copied ISBN!
Wuthering Heights
416 pages
English language
Published Oct. 27, 2009 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-104035-6Copied ISBN!
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