Wuthering heights hardback book

In wuthering heights the reader is shocked, disgusted, almost sickened by details of cruelty, inhumanity, and the most diabolical hate and vengeance, and anon come passages of powerful testimony to the supreme power of loveeven over demons in the human form. An unsophisticated, solid copy of a very desirable bronte novel. Wuthering heights opens with lockwood, a tenant of heathcliffs, visiting the home of his landlord. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. She leaves a few poetry books and her only novel, wuthering heights. Part of penguins beautiful hardback clothbound classics series, designed by the awardwinning coralie bickfordsmith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high. Wuthering heights, hardback find the lowest price on pricerunner compare prices from 4 stores dont overpay. Read wuthering heights by author emily bronte, free, online. Wuthering heights by emily bronte and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Wuthering heights emily bronte franklin library bestloved books 1979 like new. Wuthering heights by emily bronte hardcover book free. She loves this book set, if your a book collector like my fiancee she has the messed up paperback, or library book, or kindle book. The novel has inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations, a musical, a ballet, operas, and a song by kate bush. Discover a passionate tale of love lost, found, and avenged in wuthering heights.

Cambridge literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 1418 in englishspeaking classrooms. New listing wuthering heights paperback book emily bronte isbn 0553212583. Wuthering heights the only published novel by emily bronte, wuthering heights is the haunting story of the passionate love between the tortured heathcliff and catherine earnshaw, the daughter of. Wuthering heights by emily bronte is edited by richard. Now admittedly when you force someone to read a book, that persons views might be altered, but i have been forced to read other books, such. Wuthering heights, hardback find prices 4 stores at. Then has the nice set of the books for her library that she will still read if she wants to reread it. Two volume box set with slip case by random house emily bronte, charlotte bronte, wood engravings by fritz eichenberg on. Wuthering heights oxford childrens classics hardcover. Wuthering heights contains elements of gothic fiction, and another significant aspect is the moorland setting.

Wuthering heights by emily bronte, hardcover, first edition. There is something about this book that draws you in even though most of the characters are selfcentered and malicious and you tend not to like them. Wuthering heights paperback,one of english literatures classic masterpiecesa gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Wuthering heights youll be burning the midnight oil to discover the tortured tales of the inhabitants of wuthering heights. The adjective wuthering, in yorkshire dialect, refers to the turbulent weather, and of course to the turbulent atmosphere that permeates the book. Wuthering heights part of penguins beautiful hardback clothbound classics series, designed by the awardwinning coralie bickfordsmith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high. Lockwood, a wealthy man from england, rents a house from an eccentric gentleman named heathcliff, who is the tortured master of wuthering heights. Fantastic offers on quality books, collections, audio cds and more exclusive to book.

Buy wuthering heights penguin cloth bound classics book. Part of penguins beautiful hardback clothbound classics series, designed by the awardwinning coralie bickfordsmith, these. Wuthering heights by emily bronte, hardcover abebooks. Taken in by mr earnshaw from a young age, heathcliff is loved by his adoptive sister, cathy, but despised and mistreated by his adoptive brother, hindley and his friend edgar linton. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Torrid, iconoclastic and utterly unique, emily bronte s sole published novel evokes the violence of doomed romance like no other work of literature. Wuthering heights by emily bronte by the author of jane. Make offer wuthering heights by emily bronte hardcover third printing 1990. Wuthering heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between catherine earnshaw and heathcliff, a foundling adopted by. Topics about this book topics that mention this book. One wild, snowy night on the yorkshire moors, a gentleman asks about wuthering heights, the remote farmhouse inhabited by his mysterious landlord. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Wuthering heights the literary guild of america by emily. Detailing cathy and heathcliffs selfdestructive relationship amidst the wild, feral atmosphere of the yorkshire moors, wuthering heights remains an incomparable masterpiece of british fiction.

A subsequent visit to wuthering heights yields an accident and a curious supernatural encounter, which. Wuthering heights by emily bronte, pauline nestor waterstones. Part of penguins beautiful hardback clothbound classics series, designed by the awardwinning coralie bickfordsmith, these delectable and. Home browse books browse usborne childrens books popular subjects activity books baby and toddler books. It begins in a snowstorm, when lockwood, the new tenant of thrushcross grange on the bleak yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter at wuthering heights. First published in 1847, emily brontes classic novel wuthering heights was acknowledged by readers and critics as a tale of dark romance as tempestuous and untamed as its yorkshire moors setting.