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This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.
New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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John Sutherland The Brontës had this idea of a Samson figure. Rochester, like Samson, has to be mutilated before he can be domesticated. What is interesting about Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, is that he isn’t. He remains this superman. He is greater than a human being. He is named after two elemental things, the heath and the cliff. We never know what his first name is. (Source)
Robert McCrum Cathy—and all of Emily Brontë’s characters—are more or less feral. That’s why we love them. It’s a different world, it’s a mad world. In some ways, Emily Brontë is more of a poet. But she has inspired many subsequent writers of fiction. You couldn’t imagine Lawrence without her, for example. You couldn’t imagine some of Hardy. (Source)
Rachel Hickman In Wuthering Heights once again it’s the landscape that underlines the choices the characters must make. Cathy must choose between the grand house in the lush valley: protected, comfortable and tame; or the wild, exhilarating bleakness of Wuthering Heights. (Source)
Claire Jarvis Wuthering Heights is a strange novel in a lot of ways. It’s a standalone—there’s not really another book like it. (Source)
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- #5 in 12th Grade
- #5 in 17-Year-Old
- #5 in 18-Year-Old
- #39 in 2014
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- #75 in Adult
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- #92 in Author
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- #25 in Copenhagen
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- #17 in English Writer
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- #63 in Fiction
- #37 in Folio Society
- #27 in Free e-Book
- #20 in GRE
- #20 in GRE Prep
- #97 in Ghost
- #33 in Ghost Story
- #42 in Gilmore Girls
- #99 in GoT
- #5 in Gothic
- #81 in Graduate School
- #76 in Heartbreak
- #48 in High School
- #36 in High School Reading
- #41 in Kindle
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- #75 in Library
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- #23 in Literature
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- #35 in Love
- #16 in Love Stories
- #57 in Must-Read
- #74 in Mystical
- #33 in Nook
- #41 in Novel
- #50 in Old
- #56 in Online
- #35 in Options
- #59 in Paperback
- #5 in Penguin Classics
- #58 in Poster
- #30 in Project Gutenberg
- #19 in Public Domain
- #95 in Rated
- #93 in Reviewed
- #39 in Roman
- #24 in Romance
- #75 in Sad
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- #61 in To-Read
- #96 in Top Ten
- #13 in UK
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