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Wuthering Heights: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
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Author: Emily Bronte, William M. Sale
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Wuthering Heights: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780393957600
ISBN: 0393957608
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 396
Publication Date: 1990-04
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780393957600
ISBN: 0393957608
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 396
Publication Date: 1990-04
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Customer Reviews of Wuthering Heights: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
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Review Summary: not quite the 1847 text (and the 4th muddles that further).
Review: OK, it's still one of the best editions available (the 3rd edition, I mean), especially if you don't need non-dialectal notes (there are almost none). A very useful selection of early critical reviews, an intelligent anthology of Emily's verse (and that's very important), and a good selection of good, modern critical essays. Who may want more?
I, for one, want notes.
As far as the text itself is concerned, it WAS a rather good edition that looks very much as if one takes the second, Charlotte's 1850 "improved" edition and drops it into a 1847 paragraphing and -to a certain extent- punctuation mould. It's not at all -as one reviewer says- Emily's words, but these with almost one third of Charlotte's ones and other "improvements", as is clearly stated in the Textual Commentary by Sale Jr. So far, this is not a big problem in itself, although we get 'door' instead of 'floor' at the beginning of Chapter 2.
Fourth edition comes with an improved anthology of reviews and of Emily's poetry, and much improved notes (although still on the scarce side), including full and right glosses of the dialect tirades. The text -claims let aside- is the same of the 3rd ed (eclectic, as scholars say) slightly improved as far as punctuation goes, but the Textual Commentary has by now disappeared, and that's a pity. Perhaps it doesn't matter that much, but it isn't -as wrongly stated- the 1847 text.
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Review Summary: A Dreary Tale of Love, with moments of insight
Review: As a work of entertainment literature, this book is dry, boring, slow, and not worth reading. All of the characters are hateful, and unrealistic. Now, I'm not going to lie to you, it has many interesting philisophical concepts. Some of which are love, the supernatural, and human nature, however, the book was so uninteresting, and depressing, I would have rather read it out of a textbook. Bottom line - Hopefully I'm just a shallow uncultured reader, and you will find much more enjoyment in it than me.
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Review Summary: A timeless story of love
Review: Wuthering Heights is the dramatic tale of an otherworldly love that can find no place in proper British society. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff are both children of Nature who revel in their own brand of freedom on the Moors. Society intervenes in the form of the Lintons who embody all that is proper and whose allure, in the form of material wealth, is too tempting for Catherine to resist.
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Review Summary: Catherine has two different love affairs
Review: After reading Wuthering Heights it is obvious that Catherine Earnshaw loved both men equally although in different ways. Heathcliff is her childhood lover, a love based upon pain and hurt and the denial of a mother's love. They comfort each other and they are soul mates. However, as Catherine matures, she realizes that she is not the wild child of the moors but instead she is a part of society and she must adapt to society's values. Edgar is her adult lover, and his love is necessary to help her discover her identity as a woman and as a member of society. Catherine loves both men, although she loves them in different ways.
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Review Summary: Catherine is in love with Heathcliff, but can't marry him
Review: Catherine is in love with Heathcliff, but she knows that the best person for her would be Edgar. When Heatcliff comes back, she knows that she has made a big mistake. Heathcliff is disturbed after Catherine dies.
Review Summary: not quite the 1847 text (and the 4th muddles that further).
Review: OK, it's still one of the best editions available (the 3rd edition, I mean), especially if you don't need non-dialectal notes (there are almost none). A very useful selection of early critical reviews, an intelligent anthology of Emily's verse (and that's very important), and a good selection of good, modern critical essays. Who may want more?
I, for one, want notes.
As far as the text itself is concerned, it WAS a rather good edition that looks very much as if one takes the second, Charlotte's 1850 "improved" edition and drops it into a 1847 paragraphing and -to a certain extent- punctuation mould. It's not at all -as one reviewer says- Emily's words, but these with almost one third of Charlotte's ones and other "improvements", as is clearly stated in the Textual Commentary by Sale Jr. So far, this is not a big problem in itself, although we get 'door' instead of 'floor' at the beginning of Chapter 2.
Fourth edition comes with an improved anthology of reviews and of Emily's poetry, and much improved notes (although still on the scarce side), including full and right glosses of the dialect tirades. The text -claims let aside- is the same of the 3rd ed (eclectic, as scholars say) slightly improved as far as punctuation goes, but the Textual Commentary has by now disappeared, and that's a pity. Perhaps it doesn't matter that much, but it isn't -as wrongly stated- the 1847 text.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A Dreary Tale of Love, with moments of insight
Review: As a work of entertainment literature, this book is dry, boring, slow, and not worth reading. All of the characters are hateful, and unrealistic. Now, I'm not going to lie to you, it has many interesting philisophical concepts. Some of which are love, the supernatural, and human nature, however, the book was so uninteresting, and depressing, I would have rather read it out of a textbook. Bottom line - Hopefully I'm just a shallow uncultured reader, and you will find much more enjoyment in it than me.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A timeless story of love
Review: Wuthering Heights is the dramatic tale of an otherworldly love that can find no place in proper British society. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff are both children of Nature who revel in their own brand of freedom on the Moors. Society intervenes in the form of the Lintons who embody all that is proper and whose allure, in the form of material wealth, is too tempting for Catherine to resist.
This is a novel about trying to strike a balance. Heathcliff and Catherine find that their love cannot survive in a world that is dictated by rules and which would have them repress their passionate natures. Catherine seeks a union with society but can never be completely happy with Edgar because Heathcliff is her other half, not just her soulmate.
There were moments in this novel where I felt Heathcliff was unnecessarily cruel, but keeping in mind the ambiguity of his origins, I also found it impossible not to sympathize with him. I also felt that it was, perhaps, his inability to let go of Catherine that made it even harder for them both to forge separate existences for themselves with their respective Linton spouses.
Heathcliff's tenacious resentment does not limit itself to Edgar and Isabella. Indeed, his bitter resentment of the Lintons extends to the next generation as they are left to pick up the pieces of two shattered families and to begin again with the promise of a far more moderate and circumspect union between the Earnshaws and the Lintons.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Catherine has two different love affairs
Review: After reading Wuthering Heights it is obvious that Catherine Earnshaw loved both men equally although in different ways. Heathcliff is her childhood lover, a love based upon pain and hurt and the denial of a mother's love. They comfort each other and they are soul mates. However, as Catherine matures, she realizes that she is not the wild child of the moors but instead she is a part of society and she must adapt to society's values. Edgar is her adult lover, and his love is necessary to help her discover her identity as a woman and as a member of society. Catherine loves both men, although she loves them in different ways.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Catherine is in love with Heathcliff, but can't marry him
Review: Catherine is in love with Heathcliff, but she knows that the best person for her would be Edgar. When Heatcliff comes back, she knows that she has made a big mistake. Heathcliff is disturbed after Catherine dies.