I was *delighted* to receive a copy of the new edition of Wuthering Heights from Oxford World’s Classics. I last read it as a tormented 16 year old, and am intrigued to see how I will respond to it as a substantially less tormented 35 year old. The cover is just perfect, and makes me yearn for the dramatic landscape of Yorkshire. I feel a literary pilgrimage coming on.
Rather weightier is The Oxford Companion to English Literature, an enormous tome in which one could easily lose an entire Sunday afternoon. This new edition has been completely revised and updated under the scholarly eye of Professor Dinah Birch. Oddly, I’m actually quite pleased there’s no entry on Florence Marryat, as most reference works get her biographical details hopelessly wrong. I might actually have my PhD by the time the next edition comes out, so maybe they’ll let me write an entry on her.
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The Wuthering Heights cover is great, I am due a re-read of it which can excuse me buying that copy!