Wuthering Heights

by Brontë, Emily; Oates, Joyce Carol

• ISBN13: 9780192100276
• ISBN10: 0192100270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Echoing the original World's Classics series, this title is one of an initial batch of 6 mini hardbacks produced to gift book standard with stitched binding, head and tail bands, printed on 60msg paper and featuring matt laminated jackets in a retro look design. Joyce Carol Oates provides anintroduction to one of the greatest novels in English literature, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Joyce Carol Oates's most recent novel is The Heart Laid Bare (June 98, Dutton), the tale of a New England confidence man who teaches his children the tricks of his trade, a tragic 20th century familyepic crammed with ideas and American history.

Author Biography

Joyce Carol Oates, Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, is a novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist whose books include Man Crazy (1997), My Heart laid Bare (1998), and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition
The Text of Wuthering Heights	p. 1
The 1847 Wuthering Heights	p. 261
Emily Bronte's Diary	p. 261
"The Butterfly"	p. 264
Sculpting the Statue: A Chronology of the Process of Writing Wuthering Heights	p. 266
Publishing the 1847 Wuthering Heights	p. 276
Reviews of the 1847 Wuthering Heights	p. 280
The 1850 Wuthering Heights	p. 303
Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell	p. 307
Editor's Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights	p. 313
Emily Bronte's Poems for the 1850 Wuthering Heights	p. 317
Charlotte Bronte: Selections	p. 318
A little while, a little while	p. 320
The bluebell is the sweetest flower	p. 322
Loud without the wind was roaring	p. 323
Shall Earth no more inspire thee	p. 326
The night wind	p. 327
Aye there it is! It wakes to night	p. 328
Love is like the wild rose briar	p. 329
From a Dungeon Wall	p. 330
How few, of all the hearts that loved	p. 332
In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid	p. 333
Song by J. Brenzaida to G. S.	p. 334
For him who struck thy foreign string	p. 335
Heavy hangs the raindrop	p. 335
Child of Delight!	p. 337
Silent is the House	p. 338
I do not weep	p. 342
Stanzas	p. 343
No coward soul is mine	p. 344
Reviews of the 1850 Wuthering Heights	p. 345
A Chronology of Wuthering Heights	p. 357
Wuthering Heights: Repetition and the "Uncanny"	p. 361
Looking Oppositely: Emily Bronte's Bible of Hell	p. 379
Wuthering Heights: The Romantic Ascent	p. 394
Sympathy for the Devil: The Problem of Heathcliff in Film Versions of Wuthering Heights	p. 410
Emily Bronte: A Chronology	p. 429
Selected Bibliography	p. 431
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