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Title: Wuthering Heights, Fourth Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Bronte, Richard J. Dunn ISBN: 0-393-97889-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.10 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Tragedy Born of Jealous Love
Comment: I thought this book was tragic in that two people who obviously love each other very much and have so much in common that they actually refer to themselves as the other person, end up spending most of their lives in other relationships trying to make the other lover jealous or hating their choices. Ultimately, Heathcliff's desire for revenge was hard for me to understand because I suppose I have never loved anyone enough to go that far. And the end was especially tragic because he actually begged Cathy's ghost to haunt him for the rest of his life: "...drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you."
Rating: 5
Summary: A ghost story with the feel of ancient tragedy
Comment: I read this book aloud to my wife 23 years ago. At the time, I was working as an apprentice at a winery on the Rhine River. There was an old medeival castle across the river from our room. It was the perfect setting, as we two were the only English speaking people in the town. I think now is the right time to review the book, because I can only recall the feelings left behind by this powerful work of literature. Most of the plot and many of the characters have been long forgotten, leaving only the residue of strong emotion. I have read many works of powerful fiction by the world's great authors since then. But not one of them affected me emotionally the way this extraordinary tale did. I remember one gray German morning finishing the chapter where Heathcliff digs up the body of his beloved Catherine because he has gone mad in his desire to hold her close once more. And then off to the Altenkirch Schwanenkellerei I went. I spent the rest of the day working quietly in the cellars of the winery, deep inside the mountain with mold hanging all about, and brooding over the maniacal behavior of these highly romantic, insane characters. I've never been able to shake the feeling entirely. There is something so entirely timeless about this work, as though it were a piece of ancient literature, old far beyond the 1840s setting, something so utterly classical and piercingly primordial, it's as though you already had the genesis of this material in your DNA and it only required this story to bring it back to life within you. You recognize the spell it weaves because it speaks to the humanity in you so clearly, it is as though you have been secretly drugged. The English language has rarely been utilized as well as it has here, and I dare say you would need to go back to Shakespeare to find its parallel. Romanticism reached its high water mark with this novel. Ms. Brontë has now become immortal because of her creation, and in the Pantheon of world literaure, she stands among the Titans. If you are a native speaker of the English language, you can hardly consider yourself educated if you have not read this astounding novel of romantic love and uncontrollable passion.
Rating: 5
Summary: wuthering heights editions
Comment: Rather than delve on the contents of this strangest and strongest of English novels, so intensely poetic in its haunting darkness and otherness, I'll comment briefly on the best editions available for a good first contact:
1. Oxford World's Classics: authoritative text, good annotation,
excellent introduction.
2. Penguin's Classics: same as above, everything looks a little shorter but is excellent nonetheless.
3. Norton's Fourth Edition: OK, the text is still a little idiosyncratic,but the notes are much improved, and so is everything else (with the anthology of poems, and the critical essays). A very fine study edition but also suitable for a first contact, although annotation is still on the scarce side
4. Hoeveler(New Riverside) and Heywood (broadview) are worse choices: Riverside annotation isn't very good (see the magnificent blunder about Milo in Chapter 9), and Heywood is too much idiosyncratic and controversial, althogh very researched and erudite.
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Title: Jane Eyre, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Charlotte Bronte, Richard J. Dunn ISBN: 0393975428 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.40 |
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Title: Hamlet: An Authoritative Text, Intellectual Backgrounds, Extracts from the Sources, Essays in Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare, Cryus Hoy, Cyrus Hoy ISBN: 0393956636 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $10.65 |
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Title: Sense and Sensibility (Norton Critical Editions) by Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson ISBN: 039397751X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Emma by JANE AUSTEN ISBN: 0553212737 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by E. A. Sophocles, Robert Fitzgerald, Dudley Fitts ISBN: 015602764X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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