Product Description

Echoing the original World's Classics series, this title is one of an initial batch of 6 mini hardbacks produced to gift book standard with stitched binding, head and tail bands, printed on 60msg paper and featuring matt laminated jackets in a retro look design. Joyce Carol Oates provides an introduction to one of the greatest novels in English literature, Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", the classic story of Cathy and Heathcliff as they fall in love, passionately and destructively, on the Yorkshire moors. The story spans three generations and is seen through the eyes of narrators Lockwood and Nelly Dean.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1021627 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

it could, and should, be done better!
I'll not delve into the contents of this strangest and strongest of all novels, most haunting in its poetical beauty, unfathomable in its depth, superb in its narrative structure (a full 5 star masterpiece), but rather to comment briefly on this particular edition.
Yes, the text is most athoritative and the material aspects make it a really beautiful book with the right small size and an outstanding print quality.
Then what? For one, the Joyce Carol Oates introduction is not so much perceptive: for a very good short introduction see Katherine Frank for Everyman's hardback; for a longer one, either Stoneman's for Oxford or Nestor's for Penguin; if you need
a novelist's introduction, then there is Virginia Woolf's.
Secondly, and most important, what is now the use of a WH edition without annotation? why does almost everybody think that
a good annotation at the end of the text spoils the beauty of a good book?
For me, so much for the better if you end up with regular paperback Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics, or even Norton Fourth Edition (text is not so authoritative, and annotation is on the scarce side). If you are in need of a beautifully looking book, then there is Everyman's hardback, which -of course- has no annotation whatever.