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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

More Brontë Editions

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:04 am by M. in Books, Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights No comments

A survey of new editions of the Brontë novels:

Evans Publishers reissues this abridged and adapted version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, now with the accompanying of a CD audiobook:

Fast Track Classics
Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte Edited by: Pauline Francis,
Cover: Paperback|Audiobook on CD (pp: 48)
Publication Date : 02 Mar 2007
ISBN: 0237533138
13 Digit ISBN: 9780237533137

One of a series of illustrated, easy-to-read adaptations of classic texts designed to support the literacy requirements at Key Stage 2 and the English curriculum at Key Stage 3.

Dover

Publications issues a new edition of Villette:

Villette (Dover Value Editions)
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (21 Feb 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0486455572
ISBN-13: 978-0486455570

Norilana Books presents new editions of Wuthering Heigths (in p

aperback and hardback):

Hardcover: 332 pages
Publisher: Norilana Books (February 24, 2007)
ISBN-10: 1934169609 / ISBN-13: 978-1934169605
Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: Norilana Books (February 26, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934169617 / ISBN-13: 978-1934169612

Finally, Orchises Press is publishing a facsimile of the first, yes the 1847 one, edition of Wuthering Heights:

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
EMILY BRONTE
$100, per two volume set; 764 pages
ISBN 978-1932535-14-3.
Publication Date: 28 February 2007
A facsimile of the rare and virtually unobtainable 1847 Thomas Cautley Newby edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights in two volumes, as is the 1847 edition. It is bound in heavy (F grade) buckram in sewn signatures. ISBN = 978-1932535-14-3. The price is $100 per set.

This is a textually significant book. Until 1976 all reprints of this novel were based on an 1850 version edited by Emily Bronte's sister Charlotte. To accommodate the wishes of the firm then reprinting Wuthering Heights , Charlotte Bronte reparagraphed the novel, made what she felt were clarifications in dialogue, and repaired some of Newby's typographical errors. While these alterations may be of interest in themselves, they deviate from the text that Emily Bronte wrote. The closest text to Emily Bronte's manuscript is this version.