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Oxford Children's Classics: Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Oxford Children's Classics: Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

Oxford Children's Classics: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


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Summary

When Heathcliff comes to live at Wuthering Heights as a child he forms a bond with his benefactor's daughter, Cathy. As the years pass the pair fall in love, but their happiness is short-lived and the events that unfold will bring terrible misfortune to Wuthering Heights. This passionate love story is as popular today as ever.

Oxford Children's Classics: Wuthering Heights Summary

Oxford Children's Classics: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Mr Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff and brings him to Wuthering Heights, he doesn't foresee the unbreakable bond that develops between the foundling and his daughter, Cathy-a relationship which will lead to a passionate and all-consuming love affair. Although it seems their devotion has no bounds, fate has other plans for the pair . . . plans which will lead Heathcliff to wreak terrible vengeance on Wuthering Heights. This classic love story is a welcome addition to the Oxford Children's Classics series.

About Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte was born on 30th July 1818. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Bronte and the fifth of six children. From 1820 Emily's father was perpetual curate of Haworth in North Yorkshire. After the death of their mother in 1821, the older sisters were sent away to school and Emily joined them for a brief period, however two of her sisters contracted typhus and subsequently died and the remaining sisters and their brother were thereafter educated at home. Apart from a brief spell as a teacher, Emily spent the most part of her adult life at home, cooking, cleaning and teaching at Sunday school. In 1846 there appeared 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell', the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte. Wuthering Heights was Emily's only novel and was first published in 1847. Emily Bronte died from tuberculosis in 1848.

Additional information

GOR007578577
9780192733429
0192733427
Oxford Children's Classics: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
20130307
384
N/A
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