Wuthering Heights: Introduced by Jennifer Donnelly (Bloomsbury Classics)

Wuthering Heights: Introduced by Jennifer Donnelly (Bloomsbury Classics)

by Emily Bronte (Author), Jennifer Donnelly (Foreword)

Synopsis

After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Yorkshire Moors and despite the continued bad feeling between Cathy's brother, Hindley, and Heathcliff they're happy - until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbour. It is Catherine's eventual betrayal of Heathcliff which causes him to seek a violent revenge in this moving and intense masterpiece.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07 Aug 2006

ISBN 10: 0747587507
ISBN 13: 9780747587507
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: Foreword by bestselling author Jennifer Donnelly on why you should read this book. Wuthering Heights is featured on the national curriculum. Fresh and accessible information in a fun newspaper format at the back of the book including, for example, a brief author biography, breaking news, fashions of the time, gossip column about key figures of the day and a round-up of facts to impress teachers and friends with - all perfect background material for both general interest and teacher use.

Media Reviews
It is as if Emily Bronte could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they
transcend reality.
--Virginia Woolf

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Bio
Emily Bronte was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, in 1818 and died in 1848. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Bronte and the fifth of six children. Like her sister, Emily worked as a governess and later attended a private school in Brussels. Emily published poetry under a male pseudonym to avoid prejudice against female writers but Wuthering Heights was her only novel. Jennifer Donnelly is a bestselling and award-winning author. A Gathering Light, her novel for young adults, which was first published in America entitled A Northern Light, won the Carnegie Medal, the L.A. Times Book Prize, the Borders Original Voices Prize and a Michael L. Printz Honour. Jennifer's other books include The Tea Rose and the picture book, Humble Pie. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn, New York.