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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- LibraryThing key:
- 1538
- BNF ID:
- 12034945g
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Wuthering Heights
385 pages
English language
Published April 7, 2009 by Vintage Books.
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- 978-0-307-45518-5Copied ISBN!
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- 5121148
Wuthering Heights
431 pages
English language
Published 2004 by HarperCollins.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-732674-7Copied ISBN!
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- 58042150
Wuthering Heights
English language
Published 2003
- ISBN:
- 978-1-904633-04-4Copied ISBN!
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- 644595
les Hauts de Hurle-Vent
480 pages
French language
Published July 1, 1974
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-00475-2Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 52226609
O Monte dos Vendavais
315 pages
Portuguese language
Published Oct. 1, 2009 by Editorial Presença.
- ISBN:
- 978-972-23-4247-6Copied ISBN!
Hurlevent
469 pages
French language
Published March 1, 1991 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-038305-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1171088
Hurlemont
486 pages
French language
Published May 1, 1998
- ISBN:
- 978-2-84187-120-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 63214412
Hurlevent des monts
412 pages
French language
Published Jan. 7, 1993 by Groupe Flammarion.
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- 978-2-08-070411-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 2253337
Les Hauts de Hurlevent
300 pages
Spanish language
Published August 2020 by RBA.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-1329-658-6Copied ISBN!
Hurlevent
471 pages
French language
Published Jan. 17, 2005 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-030769-2Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1612353
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