Wuthering Heights
Penguin Books' 1968 Penguin English Library hardback edition in dustwrapper
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Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12cm, 374pp + ads. This is a Penguin Library Edition, a series started in 1963. The dustwrapper blurb describes them as "These editions will be cased, like this volume, in a standard dark blue binding, with gold lettering on the spine. The text will normally be printed on the better-quality paper already used for Pelicans, Penguin Classics, etc., and the pages will be thread-sewn, not unsewn bound. The jacket, as here, will carry the same design and descriptive matter as the cover of the paperback edition... Penguin Library Editions will have a physical life three times as long as that of paperbacks, even when the latter have been specially strengthened for library use. Their prices, therefore, should offer a real economy to librarians."
Emily Brontë's novel of impossible desires, violence and transgression is a masterpiece of intense, unsettling power. It begins in a snowstorm, when Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, her betrayal of him and the bitter vengeance he now wreaks on the innocent heirs of the past.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition, there is some light wear to the wrapper's edges and tanning to the pages but this predominantly to the margins.
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