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  • Wuthering Heights: By Emily Brontë : Illustrated

    Emily Brontë, Lily

    eBook (AmazonClassics, March 17, 2016)
    About Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëHow is this book unique?E-reader & tablet formatted, Font Adjustments100% Original contentUnabridged EditionAuthor Biography InsideIllustrations includedWuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell"; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews for the novel were deeply polarised; it was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti referred to it as "A fiend of a book – an incredible monster ... The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there." In the second half of the 19th century, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was considered the best of the Brontë sisters' works, but following later re-evaluation, critics began to argue that Wuthering Heights was superior.The book has inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, operas (by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin), a role-playing game, and a 1978 song by Kate Bush.
  • Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen

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  • Persuasion

    Jane Austen

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  • A Room with a View

    E. M. Forster

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  • Twelve Years a Slave

    Solomon Northup

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  • The Call of the Wild

    Jack London

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  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

    Edwin A. Abbott

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  • Hamlet

    William Shakespeare

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  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

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  • The Invisible Man

    H. G. Wells

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  • The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    William Shakespeare

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