1921 Rare Book bound by Riviere - WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte. Frontispiece by Edmund Dulac.
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Author: Emily Brontë. (Introduction, May Sinclair, Biographical Notice of Emily and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Preface by Charlotte Brontë). (Frontispiece by Edmund Dulac).
Title: WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë.
Publisher: London, Robert Riviere & Son Ltd, 1921.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 4.5 ".
Pages: xxvii-289 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good half red morocco leather binding by RIVIERE & Son (signed on the bottom of the first blank) (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. Upper edge gilt.
Content: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful color frontispiece by Edmund Dulac.
The book: Attractive and nice edition of Wuthering Heights -- a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under her pseudonym "Ellis Bell". It is her only finished novel. Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged Victorian ideas about religion, morality, class and a woman's place in society. Wuthering Heights was influenced by Romanticism including the novels of Walter Scott, gothic fiction, and Byron, and the moorland setting is significant.
The author: Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.