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Recent editions of THE TEXT OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS are based on the first edition of 1847. As that was inaccurately printed and presented, and EB's own corrected copy is lost, some emendations are made (including reference to CB's over-corrected edition of 1850). EB's original paragraphing is usually retained, and on the whole variations are minor matters of personal taste in punctuation and spelling. Some easily available editions are: the Penguin English Library, ed. D. Daiches ; the Norton Critical Edition, ed. W.M. Sale, Jr. (, ), which has a short list of textual variants, extracts from some contemporary reviews, and a selection of modern critical essays; the Everyman, introd. by M. Drabble, 1978 (CB's paragraphing: no glossary), which includes a substantial selection from EB's poems ed. P. Henderson; the World's Classics, ed. I. Jack , which has explanatory notes, and chapters numbered as in the original two-volume edition (I:1–14, II:1–20); this text is that of the Clarendon edition, ed. I. Jack and H. Marsden , which has textual variants and a series of appendices by different scholars intended to provide authoritative statements on EB's use of dialect, the legal background, the book's publishing history, the importance of EB's juvenilia. All these editions reprint CB's ‘Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell’ and her Preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights. The present study quotes from the Penguin edition.

An excellent CRITICAL INTRODUCTION to the whole novel is F. Goodridge's Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights — on theme, narrative and metaphoric structure; D. Daiches' shorter introduction to the Penguin edition evokes well its disturbing qualities. Modern criticism could be said to begin with D. Cecil's classic ‘storm versus calm’ interpretation (Early Victorian Novelists, 1934) which, together with the different lawyer's analysis by C.P. Sanger (‘The Structure of Wuthering Heights’, 1926), both often reprinted, initiated serious study of the no