Wuthering Heights

Description

Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “Wuthering Heights,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.

Emily Bront?’s only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.

In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of The Bront? Myth, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Bront? onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor’s introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Bront?’s influences and background.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Emily Bront?,Pauline Nestor (Introduction by),Lucasta Miller (Preface by)
Published: 12/31/2002
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141439556
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 7.60″ L x 5.00″ W

About the Author
Emily Bront? (1818-48) along with her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, is one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century. She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel but was also a gifted and intense poet. Pauline Nestor teaches English at Monash University, Australia. Lucasta Miller was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.