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Wuthering Heights: Complete Text With Introduction, Contexts, Critical Essays (New Riverside Editions)

by Emily Brontë, Alan Richardson

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In addition to the complete, authoritative edition of the novel, this volume contains, among other material: excerpts from "The Gondol Saga, the juvenalia that Emily wrote with sister Anne and the basis for the later "Wuthering Heights; newspaper accounts of the Liverpool slave trade, believed to be influential in the creation of Heathcliff' s background; Irish folktales told by the Reverend Bronte to his children, which were influential in the composition of the novel; and a collection of recent critical approaches to the novel.… (more)
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Like most females, I am obsessed with Wuthering Heights. I have never read a book so violently passionate. I remember reading certain parts over dozens of times just completely blown away by it. I have read many essays on it and while most critics believe the relationship between the first Cathy and Heathcliff is not meant to be an example of a great love story, rather obsession and selfishness, I still am swept away by it. ( )
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In addition to the complete, authoritative edition of the novel, this volume contains, among other material: excerpts from "The Gondol Saga, the juvenalia that Emily wrote with sister Anne and the basis for the later "Wuthering Heights; newspaper accounts of the Liverpool slave trade, believed to be influential in the creation of Heathcliff' s background; Irish folktales told by the Reverend Bronte to his children, which were influential in the composition of the novel; and a collection of recent critical approaches to the novel.

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