BRONTË, EMILY — Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library #243)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1940. Hardcover. A 1940 reprint of the 1907 issuance. The classic romance novel is presented in an Everyman's Library reprint edition. This is the story of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two upper class English families and the turmoil surrounding the Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. With an introduction by May Sinclair, and a biographical notice & an editor's preface by Charlotte Brontë, writing under her Currer Bell pseudonym. It is believed that Charlotte made a few alterations to Emily's text in the preparation of this classic. (NOTE: This edition does not include a selection of Emily Brontë's poems as in other EL editions.) An entry in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. ML #243. --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full carmine cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With sunning to spine, dulling to spine gilding & slight soiling to front cover, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy lacking interior markings.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xxvii, 289, 2 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .