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a classic !
I wonder both how it is that I'm the first to review it and why it has gone out of print! Have we got our senses? This is, by far, the best SHORT "literary live" ever written. A classic in the sense that, being easy to read, every word is important and fits its unique place: you can only add or detract one word off this little marvel so much for the worse. It links beautifully what we KNOW about the life of Emily and Charlotte with their lasting work. Many Brontë students will find that this is enough for them. If not, there is always CHITHAM and GERIN full-scale biographies (and I'm thinking mostly about Emily). ... Read more

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A PREMIER READING OF A CLASSIC

How do you define a classic?Some might say that which stands the test of time.By that definitionalone Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" merits the designation of classic.To the best of my knowledge it has been made into four films.I've not seen them all but would surely recommend the version starring Sir Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven.It has been assigned readingin countless high school and college classroom, and printed throughout the world in numerous editions.

Now, Penguin Audio gives us the opportunity to enjoy this story of love not meant to be in a superb audio edition read by Prunella Scales and Samuel West.Fans of the incredibly popular BBC series "Fawlty Towers" will remember Scales as Sybil.Here, she is Cathy incarnate and a prime narrator when assuming the voice of Nelly Dean.A popular actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, West brings both pathos and drama to the hopes and final bitter heartbreak found in Heathcliff.

As we hear in the voices of Mr. Lockwood and housekeeper Nelly Dean, Heathcliff was an orphan with no home to call his own so he came to Wuthering Heights where he is not only given shelter but also friendship by Catherine Earnshaw, daughter of the wealthy owner.But, eventually Heathcliff asks for more than friendship - he proposes marriage.When he is cruelly rebuffed his love turns to a desire for revenge.

How sad that Emily Bronte lived for only 30 years.How fortunate for us that her legacy is the incomparable "Wuthering Heights."

- Gail Cooke
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A psychological biography of the author and a study of her works aimed at discovering the identities of the people upon whom she based her characters. The author has access not only to untapped original sources documents made available to her by descendants of the Bronte family, but to other primary sources as well.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. ... Read more

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This volume focuses on the novels of Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte. A biography of each author is included along with examinations of Charlotte's Villette and Jane Eyre, and Emily's Wuthering Heights. Study these works through some of the best criticism on the texts.

This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles include detailed plot summaries of the novel, extracts from scholarly critical essays on the novels, a complete bibliography of the writer's novels, and more. ... Read more

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Great Book For Research
I thought that Bloom's The Brontes was a great book to use when researching the Brontes, especially Charlotte.For my AP English class I had to find critisms on Jane Eyre and background information on Charlotte Bronte.This book provided me with the materials to produce three pages of research on Charlotte Bronte. ... Read more

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This series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of classic works of literature from all over the world encompasses a variety of periods, themes, and authors.

Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos por estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Se representa una variedad de épocas, temas, y autores. ... Read more

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Una lectura entretenida
Este libro me parecio muy entrenido, la escritora narra la historia con todos esos detalles que nos hacen transportarnos al lugar donde ocurren los hechos, una vez se empieza a leer, uno trata de mantener la lectura hasta acabarlo y llega a identificarse con los personajes, disfrutando las historias de amor-odio que se producen. Definitavemente un libro para disfrutar. ... Read more

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Free SF Reader
Set on the moors, it is a pity that the Hound of the Baskervilles didn't get 'em.This would have saved a lot of characters a lot of grief. An orphan is taken in, and the problems start there as he grows up, has his own problems and inflicts them on others. The great detective has something to say about such places : "But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of country which makes the danger." 2 out of 5

Thisbookshows different ways the text can be viewed.
The Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series has doneexcellent work in showing different ways of looking at the Wuthering Heights text. I liked how the criticisms were collectedafter the text with the criticalpositions clearly explained first. ... Read more

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Although the Brontës have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic.Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne (1820-1849) developed a distinctive voice, while Emily (1818-1848) is one of the great women poets in English.

All three sisters, as Stevie Davies remarks in her introduction, were Romantic in inspiration, writing poetry of passionate personal feeling and of pure imagination.They share certain themes-liberty, loneliness, love-and harbor the myth of a lost paradise.Read together with their novels, the poems movingly elucidate the ideas around which the narratives revolve.And they surprise us out of our conventional notions of the sisters' personalities: Emily's rebelliousness, for example, is counterbalanced here by great tenderness.

This selection of over seventy poems gives an idea of the variety of thought and feeling within each author's work, and of the way in which the poems of these three remarkable writers parallel and reflect each other. ... Read more

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Venturing out of Yorkshire for the first time in their lives, young Charlotte and Emily Bront_ traveled to Brussels to study under a brilliant and devoted teacher, Constantin Heger. The 28 extant essays the sisters penned for Heger are collected for the first time-in their original French and in English translations-in this compelling volume. Lonoff`s full introduction and detailed annotations reveal why the Brussels experience was pivotal for both the Bront sisters` writing careers. ... Read more

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Obligatory for Bronte Experts
Sue Lonoff has done a tremendous job in collecting, transcribing and translating the Belgian Essays of Emily and Charlotte Bronte. The essays are represented first in their original/French version, including M.Hegers corrections, then in translation. The comments Lonoff made are very instructive, however, this book will mostly attract the scientific Bronte enthusiast. After all it has to be admitted that school essays, however elaborate they may be, cannot be regarded at as literature. ... Read more

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Charting a careful course through the bewildering profusion of material onWuthering Heights, thisGuide offers synopses of and excerpts from critical responses to the novel from the time of publication to the present day, supplemented by the most comprehensive bibliography currently available. Opening with a chapter on how Emily Brontë's masterpiece was received in the nineteenth century, theGuide links together a selection of extracts that demonstrate the major critical developments of the twentieth century -- from humanism through formalism to deconstruction. Within this general framework, subsequent chapters focus on psychoanalytic readings, source studies, readings using discourse theory, work on dissemination, and political readings from Marxist, postcolonialist, and feminist points of view.