A new edition of
Wuthering Heights and a study on the novel:
Legend Classics presents a cover by Anna Morrison:
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Legend Press. Legend Classics
ISBN: 978-1787198487
June 2018
Catherine Earnshaw had no idea that the boy her father took in from the streets of Liverpool would one day become her lover, her soul mate. Nor did she know that her decision to marry someone else would send him down the path of destruction.
Once a novel criticised for its display of mental and physical cruelty, Wuthering Heights is now a considered a 19th-century classic. It’s themes of gender inequality and violence driven by passion still resonate with readers today.
The Bookseller interviews Legend Press' managing director Tom Chalmers:
Francesca Pymm: How important was the overall design? Is the abstract style significant?
T.C.: The cover design was vital for the series and designer Anna Morrison has done a fantastic job. We wanted to get across the value of a book that takes the reader on a fantastic journey and then also stays with them for a lifetime. Each reader’s experience is different with a great book and we wanted that represented by the original abstract design. We also wanted to them to look fantastic together or individually on any reader’s bookshelves, demonstrating the great value of the best books.
This is a recent pragmastylistic study of the novel:
Speech is Personality: A Pragmastylistic study of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
by Dr Nasser Ali Ahmed Ammar
ISBN-13: 978-1980909927
Independently Published, 2018
Speech is Personality is a pragmastylistic analysis of the speech of the two main characters in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, namely Heathcliff and Mr Lockwood. The author believes that speech is a key to understand one’s personality. The advantage of this approach of analysis is that characters are not evaluated impressionistically, but according to their choices of words and structures. These choices are determined by one’s upbringing and education. In addition, they reveal one’s feelings and temperament. In a nutshell, conducting a character analysis based on concrete and tangible pieces of evidence supported by statistics will actually yield convincing and unbiased characterisation, which is an essential part of performing a literary appreciation of literary works.
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