Wuthering Heights [electronic resource]
Emily Bronte1999
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"Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American
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Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death
at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely
original novel in the English language. ""Only Emily Brontë,"" V.S. Pritchett
said about the author and her contemporaries, ""exposes her imagination to the
dark spirit."" And Virginia Woolf wrote, ""It is as if she could tear up all
that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with
such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of
all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with few touches
indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor
make the wind blow and the thunder roar.""
This Modern Library edition contains a biographical note and preface by the
author's sister Charlotte Brontë, and an Introduction by Diane Johnson. ...
Main title:
Wuthering Heights [electronic resource] / Emily Bronte
Author:
Emily Bronte, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Modern Library, 1999
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (448)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780679640004
Language:
English
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BRN:
438365
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