Wuthering Heights
By: Emily Brontë ; introduction by Diane Johnson.
Edition: 1994 Modern Library edition (4)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780679601357
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction; Rural families -- Fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction; Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 a 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-353).
Series statement from jacket.