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Book cover image of Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions Series) by Emily Bronte

Authors: Emily Bronte, Richard J. Dunn
ISBN-13: 9780393978896, ISBN-10: 0393978893
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 4th Edition

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Author Biography: Emily Bronte

Richard J. Dunn is Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights, Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s David Copperfield, David Copperfield: An Annotated Bibliography, The English Novel, Twentieth-Century Criticism, Defoe to Hardy, and Oliver Twist: Whole Heart and Soul.

Book Synopsis

The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.

Internet Book Watch

This abridged presentation of a classic brings to life Bronte's gothic romance and provides a powerful reading by Martin Shaw, whose voice perfectly captures this dark story of the moors. Those reluctant to read the full classic will find this audio version compelling and hard to quit listening to.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition
The Text of Wuthering Heights1
The 1847 Wuthering Heights261
Emily Bronte's Diary261
"The Butterfly"264
Sculpting the Statue: A Chronology of the Process of Writing Wuthering Heights266
Publishing the 1847 Wuthering Heights276
Reviews of the 1847 Wuthering Heights280
The 1850 Wuthering Heights303
Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell307
Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights313
Emily Bronte's Poems for the 1850 Wuthering Heights317
Charlotte Bronte: Selections318
A little while, a little while320
The bluebell is the sweetest flower322
Loud without the wind was roaring323
Shall Earth no more inspire thee326
The night wind327
Aye there it is! It wakes to night328
Love is like the wild rose briar329
From a Dungeon Wall330
How few, of all the hearts that loved332
In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid333
Song by J. Brenzaida to G. S.334
For him who struck thy foreign string335
Heavy hangs the raindrop335
Child of Delight!337
Silent is the House338
I do not weep342
Stanzas343
No coward soul is mine344
Reviews of the 1850 Wuthering Heights345
A Chronology of Wuthering Heights357
Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the "Uncanny"361
Looking Oppositely: Emily Bronte's Bible of Hell379
Wuthering Heights: The Romantic Ascent394
Sympathy for the Devil: The Problem of Heathcliff in Film Versions of Wuthering Heights410
Emily Bronte: A Chronology429
Selected Bibliography431

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