Wuthering Heights
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Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-language classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, fleeting tales, essays, travel-writing and additional non-fiction. The series will be wide and open-finished, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is edited by Richard Hoyes, Head of English and Media Studies, Farnham College, Surrey.Amazon.com Review
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Dear Amazon Readers:
Penguin Classics is pleased to publish three new Penguin Classics Deluxe editions of Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Letter and Pride and Prejudice, with covers designed by world-renowned fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo.
With Penguin’s history of excellence in book design and following the success of our nonstop series of award-winning deluxe editions with covers by leading graphic and comic artists, we wanted to explore another inspiring world of design for Penguin Classics. Roseanne Serra, our art director for this series, which we call in-house the Couture Classics, had the vision of inviting fashion illustrators to make specially commissioned art work. My first choice of an artist to question was Ruben Toledo, whose work I have admired since I was a student combing through pages of the earlier incarnations of Paper and Details magazines. I permanently establish his drawings of women dressed in the latest styles to be so imaginative, whimsical and surreal, that they could be characters out of beloved novels.
Ruben agreed to draw these three covers, each in a different medium of ink, watercolor or pencil, because he was attracted to the thought of making covers for a younger generation of Penguin Classics readers and to promote literacy. They are “not your mother’s Bronte” as Glamour tagged the set. Our hope is that these vibrant covers will entice all-purpose readers and students with an interest in design to delve into the tales that inspire these artistic creations. We hope that book lovers, persons that cherish the ancient-school feel of a physical book, who like book design, fonts, and the all-around aesthetics of a gorgeous book, will want all three.
Cathy and Heathcliff, Hester and Pearl, and Elizabeth and Darcy are the literary muses for these covers, and readers will delight in Ruben’s interpretations of these classic characters plus the mood, texture, and scenery inspired by them. From front to back take in, extending even to the French flaps, each take in represents a refreshing representation of the classic work through Ruben’s unique artistic sensibility.
The fun of these covers is that they reiterate that classics are significant for every generation, especially the latest one. Liesl Schillinger for the New York Times blog identifies the fun in seeing the aesthetics of today’s youth embodied in Toledo’s art: “Was Heathcliff–the wild child of Wuthering Heights–a 19th-century emo boy? Can you picture Jane Austen’s Lizzy Bennet as a Regency gossip girl, and Darcy as her Mr. Huge in knee breeches? And what about Hester Prynne–was she Nathaniel Hawthorne’s thought of a colonial yummy mummy?” Nylon first blogged about Toledo’s series, and the tongue-in-cheek challenge to judge a book by its take in: “While his surreal take on the Yorkshire moors or his Technicolor vision of Hester Prynne might not change the actual details of the plot, they certainly add a stylish edge to book club mainstays.”
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I’ve heard that people like the Wuthering Heights take in because it exudes the same dark Gothic sexiness of Twilight’s Edward and Bella. (How perfect that Bella herself reads Wuthering Heights for advice on her own like life.) Toledo’s details capturing Cathy’s persona are mesmerizing, and the chic mysteriousness of Heathcliff peering above his collar captures the perfect terrible-boyfriend tone.
The stark black and white Pride and Prejudice take in in silhouette is precise yet witty. (I like the chair on the back take in.) Ruben has a small extra for readers of Pride and Prejudice with a frontispiece of extra “accessories” for the take in’s characters.
But my personal favorite is The Scarlet Letter take in. I like the gossiping women, who extend to the French flaps of the take in, emphasizing the size of Hester’s scandal. For the font-crazed, Ruben makes various fonts of the letter “A” tacked along the fence. The rose bush, a classic image that appears in 19th-century illustrated editions, is the perfect attach to this modern interpretation. Look at the ravishing Hester entangled by the mark she must wear on what might be a cashmere sweater dress with an utterly intimidating Pearl in tow in what could be Wolford baby tights. With such alluring images, who wouldn’t be compelled to read these novels?
What went through Ruben’s mind in making these covers? Ruben discussed his process with Women’s Wear Daily, “I did approach each tale as abstract images–visual quotes from a dream. As I read, I was playing the animated movie in my head. These masterpieces are all so well written.”
We hope you delight in all three books. We hope they spark your imagination and stir up passion for the classics, for Penguin Classics, so timeless and trend-setting, they never go out of style.
Best wishes,
Elda Rotor
Editorial Director, Penguin Classics
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While cultural pundits try to convince you that some literature is better than additional literature, the truth is that all art is relative to individial tastes. Thus, it doesn’t make any sense to reflect that a novel like this one is really any better than say, Michael Crichton or Stephen King. Aesthetic standards can’t be grounded.
Thus, don’t listen to anyone who tries to distinguish between “serious” works of literature like this one and allegedly “lesser” novels. The honor is entirely illusory, because no novels are “better” than any others, and the concept of a “fantastic novel” is an intellectual hoax.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Maybe the title is a bit harsh. Sometimes Henry James can beat a Bronte sister in forcing predictability onto a book. The title is mostly right though, the Bronte sisters have added nothing to literature than generic cruddy like tales in featureless settings with too many words. Between Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I have to say that the latter is the worst of the pair, Jane Eyre taking a close second in the “worst books of all time” competition. My suggestion is to skip out on this book entirely and burn all copies you have of it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was very pleased with the book,”Wurthering Heights” and the service in sending it to me. THank you.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is an absolute mess. It’s told in the first person by different narrators but as I was bored and so unfocused a lot of the time I was sometimes not sure who was narrating. Heathcliffe the ‘hero’ was annoying and in some ways pathetic and the heroine Cathy seemed like a spoiled brat. I didn’t like the use of dialect either- It’s a lot simpler to read English as it should be written and imagine an accent to it rather than see these weird alien words in print. What an absolute mess of a book, I can’t judge all the praise I see heaped on it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
My daughter had to read this book for English @ school and she’s 15 and said that it was long drawn out and dull because of the depth gone into to descibe everything….
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5