Emily Brontë, Michelle M. White

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Wuthering Heights (Annotated Keynote Classics)

Beschreibung

A haunting tale of Gothic romance and bitter vengeance entwines two families in a life and death drama spanning three generations. The windswept landscape of the Yorkshire moors is a fitting backdrop to the equally stormy inhabitants of the bleak farmhouse, Wuthering Heights, and the noble mansion called Thrushcross Grange. When circumstances bring the Linton and Earnshaw families together with the orphan Heathcliff, a complex saga of all-consuming passion, self-destructive revenge, and gripping drama ensues. ¿¿Keynote Classics¿ unabridged classic literature feature a no-spoiler Introductory Key, explanatory footnotes, and wide margins for note-taking to help readers get more from their reading experience, and remember, discuss, or write more confidently about classic literature. Annotated Keynote Classics¿ begin with an Introductory Key to the work with hints about what to look for to find deeper meaning. Unlike other literature study guides, they contain no spoilers and don't specify themes, motifs, and symbols found in the novel. Instead, they point out general ideas and things to pay attention to that help you find your own interpretations. Footnotes help foster understanding, and historical context about the author and the prevailing culture provides important perspective. Questions are provided at the end to help inspire discussion or essay topics. Teachers recommend that you read actively and engage with the text to help you draw on your own knowledge and experience to get more out of a novel. Keynote Classics¿ paperbacks provide more space in the margins for writing down thoughts, connections, and interpretations as you read.

Autor

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) The third of the famous Brontë siblings, Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet. Her most famous work Wuthering Heights - and her only novel - was published under the pen name, Ellis Bell, in 1847. Although Emily is best known for writing Wuthering Heights, she was a prolific poet who wrote around 200 poems in her lifetime. She contributed many of her well-known poems to Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, which Emily published in 1846 along with her sisters, Charlotte and Anne Brontë. According to Charlotte Brontë, Emily was reclusive and shy. Interestingly, her solitary nature was reserved for human beings, while her warmth emerged when she found herself in nature. An empathetic person, she took in her surroundings while wandering the moors with her sister, Anne, and poured it into the saga of everlasting love: Wuthering Heights. Despite being criticized when it was first published, the novel is today considered one of the finest works in English literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Keynote Classics
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781949611328
• ISBN-10: 1949611329
• Artikelnr.: 60631319