Name: Wuthering Heights: Illustrated by Clare Leighton
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Author: Emily Brontë
ISBN: 9781938938528

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Wuthering Heights: Illustrated by Clare Leighton

Type

Physical Book

Author

Emily Brontë

Illustrated by

Clare Leighton

Publisher

Top Five Books, LLC

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781938938528

Synopsis "Wuthering Heights: Illustrated by Clare Leighton "

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights includes the complete, unabridged text; 12 starkly beautiful woodcut illustrations by renowned artist Clare Leighton (which were the inspiration for the sets of the classic 1939 Laurence Olivier-Merle Oberon film adaptation), as well as a helpful introduction, detailed author bio, and bibliography.Wuthering Heights was released in 1847 in the shadow of the instantly successful Jane Eyre, published two months earlier by her older sister Charlotte. It enjoyed only mixed reviews-but the reactions were intense, foreshadowing the eventual stature the novel would claim in the pantheon of English literature, surpassing in many readers' eyes even her sister's magnum opus. Though Emily would not live to see it, Wuthering Heights would become synonymous with passionate gothic romance and tragic love, establishing Heathcliff and Catherine as the most poignantly doomed couple in fiction since Romeo & Juliet, but with even darker consequences for everyone involved.

Emily Brontë

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Emily Brontë led her brief life (1818-1848) discreetly and in accordance with the conventions of her time. Wuthering Heights, her only and splendid narrative work, was born as the product of a common purpose, agreed with her two sisters -Charlotte and Anne-, to write one novel each.

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