Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Condition: used (ware on cover; inside great)
Riverside Editions (Houghton Mifflin Company), 1956

"In her [writing], the poetic and visionary imagination overpower all else; she is alone in being without psychological dismay. For her the world is a ferocious hunting ground and she delights in its beauty; in that respect she sees no difference between mountain, animal, or man. She does not seek out the quotidian consolations of everyday life; but, accepting them, as we all must, she things of them as perfunctory, with the scorn of the saint for the flesh. It is not surprising that Wuthering Heights shocked the few people who read it when it was published in 1847, the year before her death. The book does, or should, shock ourselves."

– from the introduction by V. S. Pritchett