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... Wuthering Heights is the most remarkable novel in English . It is perfect , and perfect in the rarest way : it is the complete bodying forth of an intensely individual apprehension of the nature of man and life . That is to say , the ...
... Wuthering Heights is the most remarkable novel in English . It is perfect , and perfect in the rarest way : it is the complete bodying forth of an intensely individual apprehension of the nature of man and life . That is to say , the ...
Page 196
... Wuthering Heights is a novel of revenge , with Heathcliff the revenger ; but he has become one solely because of his ... Wuthering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of the spirit , and in the world of Wuthering Heights those ...
... Wuthering Heights is a novel of revenge , with Heathcliff the revenger ; but he has become one solely because of his ... Wuthering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of the spirit , and in the world of Wuthering Heights those ...
Page 197
... Wuthering Heights and its flawlessness as a totality . Everything in the novel works together to produce the concreteness , the characters , the action , the kinetic prose that renders a whole landscape and geography and climate without ...
... Wuthering Heights and its flawlessness as a totality . Everything in the novel works together to produce the concreteness , the characters , the action , the kinetic prose that renders a whole landscape and geography and climate without ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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