Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Overview

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The one and only from Emily Brontë, and it is a gut punch. A tragic story of class divides and revenge, Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of the power of love, and the devastation of love lost.

Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. The epic story of Catherine and Heathcliff plays out against the dramatic backdrop of the wild English moors, and presents an astonishing metaphysical vision of fate and obsession, passion and revenge. "Only Emily Brontë," V. S. Pritchett said, "exposes her imagination to the dark spirit." And Virginia Woolf wrote, "Hers...is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts...by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar." This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë's original Introduction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782291061434
Publisher:	MVP
Publication date:	02/06/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	602 KB

About the Author

Ben Lewis is a writer for theatre, TV, film and radio. Ben is the founding member of award—winning theatre company Inspector Sands, co—creating work which has toured extensively in the UK, to venues including the Southbank Centre, the National Theatre, the Traverse and the Lyric Hammersmith, and to countries including the USA, Korea, China, Armenia and Russia. He adapted Wuthering Heights for the Inspector Sands UK tour in April 2023 and Don Quixote for Dundee Rep/Perth Theatre.

Lucinka Eisler is a theatre maker, actor and director, with a background in collaborative, devised and text—based work. She is co—artistic director of Inspector Sands theatre company with whom she has been making and performing work for national and international touring since 2006. The company makes work through a collaborative process with a strong focus on integration of performance with design elements, in particular sound design. With Inspector Sands and as an independent theatre maker she has received grants from Arts Council England, The Wellcome Trust, The National Lottery, The Sackler Trust, Royal Victoria Hall and The Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

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Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Emily BrontëGenealogical TableWuthering Heights: Main TextAppendix 1: Contemporary Reviews of Wuthering HeightsAppendix 2: Charlotte Brontë's Prefaces to the 1850 EditionAppendix 3: Selected Poems by Emily BrontëExplanatory Notes

What People are Saying About This

Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials... And there it stands colossal, dark, and frowning, half statue, half rock; in the former sense, terrible and goblin-like; in the latter, almost beautiful, for its colouring is of mellow grey, and moorland moss clothes it; and heath, with its blooming bells and balmy fragrance, grows faithfully close to the giant's foot.

Reading Group Guide

1. To what extent do you think the setting of the novel contributes to, or informs, what takes place? Do you think the moors are a character in their own right? How do you interpret Bronte's view of nature and the landscape?

2. Discuss Emily Bronte's careful attention to a rigid timeline and the role of the novel as a sober historical document. How is this significant, particularly in light of the turbulent action within? What other contrasts within the novel strike you, and why? How are these contrasts important, and how do they play out in the novel?

3. Do you think the novel is a tale of redemption, despair, or both? Discuss the novel's meaning to you. Do you think the novel's moral content dictates one choice over the other?

4. Do you think Bronte succeeds in creating three-dimensional figures in
Heathcliff and Cathy, particularly given their larger-than-life metaphysical passion? Why or why not?

5. Discuss Bronte's use of twos: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange; two families, each with two children; two couples (Catherine and Edgar, and Heathcliff and Isabella); two narrators; the doubling-up of names. What is Bronte's intention here? Discuss.

6. How do Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean influence the story as narrators? Do you think they are completely reliable observers? What does Bronte want us to believe?

7. Discuss the role of women in Wuthering Heights. Is their depiction typical of Bronte's time, or not? Do you think Bronte's characterizations of women mark her as a pioneer ahead of her time or not?

8. Who or what does Heathcliff represent in the novel? Is he a force of evil or a victim of it? How important is the role of class in the novel, particularly as it relates to Heathcliff and his life?