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44-506: Buffy novels have been published since 1998. Originally under the Pocket Books imprint of Simon & Schuster , they are now published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment which launched in 2004. Authors who have written original novels include Mel Odom , Christopher Golden , and Nancy Holder . These Buffyverse tales take place throughout the series and are novelizations of various episodes. These Buffyverse tales take place before

88-405: A "sort of rugged power." Graham's Lady Magazine wrote: "How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors". The American Whig Review wrote: Respecting a book so original as this, and written with so much power of imagination, it

132-592: A Simon & Schuster partner, and James M. Jacobson bought Pocket Books for $ 5 million. Simon & Schuster acquired Pocket in 1966. Phyllis E. Grann who would later become the first woman CEO of a major publishing firm was promoted to run Pocket Books under then CEO Richard E. Snyder . Grann left for Putnam in 1976. In 1981, Dr. Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care was listed as their top seller, having sold 28 million copies at that time and having been acquired in 1946. In 1989, The Dieter by Susan Sussman became

176-1150: A choice at the end of each section. Depending upon the reader's decision, the reader will be directed to another numbered section that might be anywhere in the book. Unlike some other gamebooks, Stake Your Destiny novels do not contain any form of game system. These tales take place during Buffy Season 2, (from autumn 1997 until spring 1998). These tales take place during Buffy Season 3 (from autumn 1998 until spring 1999). These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 4, and Angel Season 1 (from autumn 1999 until spring 2000). These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 5, and Angel Season 2 (from autumn 2000 until spring 2001). These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 6, and Angel Season 3 (from autumn 2001 until spring 2002). These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 7, and Angel Season 4 (from autumn 2002 until spring 2003). These Buffyverse tales take place after Buffy Season 7, and after Angel Season 4. Buffy novels are not usually considered part of Buffyverse canon by fans. However, unlike fan fiction , overviews summarising

220-422: A fight ensues. Heathcliff is then made to live in the manor's unheated, dusty attic and swears that he will one day have his revenge. Frances dies after giving birth to a son, Hareton. Two years later, Catherine becomes engaged to Edgar. She confesses to Nelly that she loves Heathcliff, and will try to help him, but feels she cannot marry him because of his low social status. Nelly warns her against associating with

264-636: A list of the 40 best books to read during lockdown . Harvey said that "It's impossible to imagine this novel ever provoking quiet slumbers; Emily Brontë's vision of nature blazes with poetry". Novelist John Cowper Powys notes the importance of the setting: By that singular and forlorn scenery—the scenery of the Yorkshire moors round her home—[Emily Brontë] was, however, in the more flexible portion of her curious nature inveterately influenced. She does not precisely describe this scenery—not at any length   ... but it sank so deeply into her that whatever she wrote

308-676: A man like Heathcliff. Heathcliff overhears part of the conversation and, misunderstanding Catherine's heart, flees the household. Catherine falls ill, distraught. Three years after his departure, with Edgar and Catherine now wed and expecting children, Heathcliff unexpectedly returns, now a wealthy gentleman. He encourages Isabella's infatuation with him as a means of revenge on Catherine. Enraged by Heathcliff's constant presence at Thrushcross Grange, Edgar banishes him. Catherine responds by locking herself in her room and refusing food; she never fully recovers. At Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff exploits Hindley's gambling addiction and compels him to mortgage

352-577: A second edition of Wuthering Heights , which was published in 1850. Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse , and for its challenges to Victorian morality , religion, and the class system . It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush 's song of

396-435: Is a strange sort of book,—baffling all regular criticism; yet, it is impossible to begin and not finish it; and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about. In Wuthering Heights the reader is shocked, disgusted, almost sickened by details of cruelty, inhumanity, and the most diabolical hate and vengeance, and anon come passages of powerful testimony to the supreme power of love – even over demons in

440-604: Is also the division that currently owns publication rights to the well-known work of James O'Barr , The Crow . Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë , initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors , the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with

484-772: Is more savagery, more brutality, in the pages of Wuthering Heights than in any novel of the nineteenth century, and, for good measure, more beauty too, more poetry, and, what is more unusual, a complete lack of sexual emotion. ... Emily Brontë, striding over the Yorkshire moors with her dog, did not conjure from her imagination any cozy tale of happy lovers to console women readers sitting snugly within doors. Writing in The Guardian in 2003 writer and editor Robert McCrum placed Wuthering Heights in his list of 100 greatest novels of all time. And in 2015 he placed it in his list of 100 best novels written in English. He said that Wuthering Heights releases extraordinary new energies in

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528-550: Is natural that there should be many opinions. Indeed, its power is so predominant that it is not easy after a hasty reading to analyze one's impressions so as to speak of its merits and demerits with confidence. We have been taken and carried through a new region, a melancholy waste, with here and there patches of beauty; have been brought in contact with fierce passions, with extremes of love and hate, and with sorrow that none but those who have suffered can understand." Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper wrote: Wuthering Heights

572-473: The American market. Priced at 25 cents and featuring the logo of Gertrude the kangaroo (named after the mother-in-law of the artist, Frank Lieberman), Pocket Books' editorial policy of reprints of light literature, popular non-fiction, and mysteries was coordinated with its strategy of selling books outside the traditional distribution channels. The small format size, 4.25" by 6.5" (10.8 cm by 16.5 cm) and

616-399: The Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff . The novel, influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction , is considered a classic of English literature . Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë 's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre , but they were published later. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited

660-769: The United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch , and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and had one million books in print by the following year. Pocket Books was founded by Richard L. Simon , M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster and Leon Shimkin , partners of Simon & Schuster, along with Robert Fair de Graff . Penguin's success inspired entrepreneur Robert F. de Graff, who partnered with publishers Simon & Schuster to bring it to

704-457: The basic story of each novel (written early in the writing process) were approved by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), thereby allowing the books to be published as "official Buffy/Angel merchandise." For a list associating Buffyverse authors with their Buffyverse novels see here . List of authors who have written Buffy novels: Pocket Books Pocket Books produced the first mass-market , pocket-sized paperback books in

748-457: The bestseller list, and by the end of the first week sold out of its initial 100,000 copy run. By the end of the year Pocket Books had sold more than 1.5 million units. Robert de Graff continued to refine his selections with movie tie-ins and greater emphasis on mystery novels, particularly those of Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner . Pocket and its imitators thrived during World War II because material shortages worked to their advantage. During

792-420: The book, writing in 1854 that it was "the first novel I've read for an age, and the best (as regards power and sound style) for two ages, except Sidonia ", but, in the same letter, he also referred to it as "a fiend of a book – an incredible monster  ... The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there". Rossetti's friend, the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne

836-531: The chronology of Wuthering Heights "affirmed Emily's literary craft and meticulous planning of the novel and disproved Charlotte's presentation of her sister as an unconscious artist who 'did not know what she had done'." However, for a later critic, Albert J. Guerard , "it is a splendid, imperfect novel which Brontë loses control over occasionally". Still, in 1934, Lord David Cecil , writing in Early Victorian Novelists , commented "that Emily Brontë

880-459: The days of Homer . The Literary World wrote: In the whole story not a single trait of character is elicited which can command our admiration, not one of the fine feelings of our nature seems to have formed a part in the composition of its principal actors. In spite of the disgusting coarsness of much of the dialogue, and the improbabilities of much of the plot, we are spellbound. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti admired

924-540: The dead Catherine; he avoided the young couple, saying that he could not bear to see Catherine's eyes, which they both shared, looking at him. He eventually stopped eating, and some days later was found dead in Catherine's old room. Cathy has been teaching the still-uneducated Hareton to read. They plan to marry and move to the Grange, accompanied by Nelly, with Joseph being left to take care of Wuthering Heights. Nelly reports that

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968-626: The estate to cover his losses. Heathcliff elopes with Isabella, but the relationship fails and they soon return. When Heathcliff discovers that Catherine is dying, he visits her in secret. She dies shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Cathy , and Heathcliff rages, calling on her ghost to haunt him for as long as he lives. Isabella, bitter over Heathcliff's devotion to a dead woman, flees south where she gives birth to Heathcliff's son, Linton. Hindley dies six months later of alcoholism , and Heathcliff then takes possession of Wuthering Heights as its new master. Twelve years later, after Isabella's death,

1012-540: The fact that the books were glued rather than stitched, were cost-cutting innovations. The first ten numbered Pocket Book titles published in May 1939 with a print run of about 10,000 copies each: This list includes seven novels, the most recent being six years old ( Lost Horizons , 1933), two classics (Shakespeare and Wuthering Heights , both out of copyright), one mystery novel, one book of poetry ( Enough Rope ), and one self-help book. The edition of Wuthering Heights hit

1056-603: The first hardcover published by Pocket Books. Pocket was for many years known for publishing works of popular fiction based on movies or TV series, such as the Star Trek franchise (owned by former corporate siblings CBS Television Studios and Paramount Pictures ). Since first obtaining the Star Trek license from Bantam Books in 1979 (with a publication of the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture ), Pocket has published hundreds of original and adapted works based upon

1100-414: The first two volumes and Agnes Grey made up the third. In 1850 Charlotte Brontë edited the original text for the second edition of Wuthering Heights and also provided it with her foreword. She addressed the faulty punctuation and orthography but also diluted Joseph's thick Yorkshire dialect. Writing to her publisher, W. S. Williams, she said that It seems to me advisable to modify the orthography of

1144-707: The franchise and continues to publish a new novel every month. Beginning in 2017 with novels based on Star Trek: Discovery , the Star Trek novel lines have gradually moved to Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books line. Pocket also previously published novels based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The author credited for one of the Buffy products is Gertrude Pocket, a reference to the company's kangaroo logo. (The Buffy novels are now published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment , another division of Simon & Schuster .) Pocket Books

1188-461: The human form. The women in the book are of a strange fiendish-angelic nature, tantalising, and terrible, and the men are indescribable out of the book itself. The Examiner wrote: This is a strange book. It is not without evidences of considerable power: but, as a whole, it is wild, confused, disjointed, and improbable; and the people who make up the drama, which is tragic enough in its consequences, are savages ruder than those who lived before

1232-433: The locals have seen the ghosts of Catherine and Heathcliff wandering abroad together. Lockwood seeks out the graves of Catherine, Edgar, and Heathcliff, and is convinced that all three are finally at peace. The original text as published by Thomas Cautley Newby in 1847 is available online in two parts. The novel was first published together with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey in a three-volume format : Wuthering Heights filled

1276-497: The new master of Wuthering Heights on the death of his father three years later. He and his new wife Frances force Heathcliff to live as one of their servants and subject him to much verbal and emotional abuse. Edgar Linton and his sister Isabella live nearby at Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff and Catherine spy on them out of curiosity. When Catherine is attacked by their dog, the Lintons take her in, but send Heathcliff home. The Lintons visit, and Hindley and Edgar make fun of Heathcliff;

1320-546: The night Catherine died he dug up her grave, and ever since has been plagued by her ghost. When Linton unexpectedly dies, Cathy has no option but to remain at Wuthering Heights. Having reached the present day, Nelly's tale concludes. Lockwood grows tired of the moors and moves away. Eight months later he returns for a visit, and Nelly, now the housekeeper at Wuthering Heights, tells him what has happened since he left. Heathcliff gave up his opposition to Cathy and Hareton's union. He declined physically and started seeing visions of

1364-418: The night, Lockwood reads the diary of the former inhabitant of his room, Catherine Earnshaw, and has a nightmare in which a ghostly Catherine begs to enter through the window. Awakened by Lockwood's fearful yells, Heathcliff is troubled. Lockwood later returns to Thrushcross Grange in heavy snow, falls ill from the cold and becomes bedridden. While he recovers, Lockwood's housekeeper Ellen "Nelly" Dean tells him

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1408-465: The novel, renews its potential, and almost reinvents the genre. The scope and drift of its imagination, its passionate exploration of a fatal yet regenerative love affair, and its brilliant manipulation of time and space put it in a league of its own. Writing for BBC Culture in 2015 author and book reviewer Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics from outside the UK and presented Wuthering Heights as number 7 in

1452-423: The old servant Joseph's speeches; for though, as it stands, it exactly renders the Yorkshire dialect to a Yorkshire ear, yet I am sure Southerns must find it unintelligible; and thus one of the most graphic characters in the book is lost on them. Irene Wiltshire, in an essay on dialect and speech, examines some of the changes Charlotte made. Early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed. Most critics recognised

1496-459: The power and imagination of the novel, but were baffled by the storyline, and objected to the savagery and selfishness of the characters. In 1847, when the background of an author was given great importance in literary criticism, many critics were intrigued by the authorship of the Bell novels. The Atlas review called it a "strange, inartistic story", but commented that every chapter seems to contain

1540-574: The resulting list of 100 greatest British novels. In 2018 Penguin presented a list of 100 must-read classic books and placed Wuthering Heights at number 71, saying: "Widely considered a staple of Gothic fiction and the English literary canon, this book has gone on to inspire many generations of writers – and will continue to do so". Writing in The Independent journalist and author Ceri Radford and news presenter, journalist, and TV producer Chris Harvey included Wuthering Heights in

1584-463: The same name . In 1801, Mr Lockwood , the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire , pays a visit to his landlord, Heathcliff , at his remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. There he meets a reserved young woman (later identified as Cathy Linton), Joseph, a cantankerous servant, and Hareton, an uneducated young man who speaks like a servant. Everyone is sullen and inhospitable. Snowed in for

1628-458: The still-sickly Linton is brought back to live with his uncle Edgar at the Grange, but Heathcliff insists that his son must instead live with him. Cathy and Linton (respectively at the Grange and Wuthering Heights) gradually develop a relationship. Heathcliff schemes to ensure that they marry in order to ensure his claim to Thrushcross Grange, and on Edgar's death demands that the couple move in with him. He becomes increasingly wild and reveals that on

1672-596: The story of the strange family. Thirty years earlier, the Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights with their two children, Hindley and Catherine, and a servant—Nelly herself. Returning from a trip to Liverpool , Earnshaw brings home an orphan whom he names Heathcliff. Heathcliff's origins are unclear but it's suggested he is either of Romani or Lascar descent. Earnshaw treats the boy as his favourite. His own children he neglects, especially after his wife dies. Hindley beats Heathcliff, who gradually becomes close friends with Catherine. Hindley departs for university, returning as

1716-400: The television series begins (from 490 BCE to CE 1996). These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 1 (from spring 1996 until spring 1997). Keep Me In Mind , The Suicide King , Colony , and Night Terrors form a series of gamebooks , titled "Stake Your Destiny". Each novel contains many numbered sections. Instead of reading the book from start-to-finish, the reader is given

1760-507: The war, Pocket sued Avon Books for copyright infringement: among other issues, a New York state court found Pocket did not have an exclusive right to the pocket-sized format (both Pocket and Avon published paperback editions of Leslie Charteris ' The Saint mystery series, among others). In 1944, the founding owners sold the company to Marshall Field III , owner of the Chicago Sun newspaper. Following Field's death in 1957, Leon Shimkin,

1804-494: The whole world of poetry or prose." Until late in the 19th century " Jane Eyre was regarded as the best of the Brontë sisters' novels". This view began to change in the 1880s with the publication of A. Mary F. Robinson 's biography of Emily in 1883. Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf affirmed the greatness of Wuthering Heights in 1925: Wuthering Heights is a more difficult book to understand than Jane Eyre , because Emily

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1848-558: Was a greater poet than Charlotte.   ... She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. That gigantic ambition is to be felt throughout the novel   ... It is this suggestion of power underlying the apparitions of human nature and lifting them up into the presence of greatness that gives the book its huge stature among other novels. Similarly, Woolf's contemporary John Cowper Powys referred in 1916 to Emily Brontë's "tremendous vision". In 1926 Charles Percy Sanger's work on

1892-464: Was another early admirer of the novel, and in conclusion for an essay on Emily Brontë, published in The Athenaeum in 1883, writes: "As was the author's life, so is her book in all things: troubled and taintless, with little of rest in it, and nothing of reproach. It may be true that not many will ever take it to their hearts; it is certain that those who do like it will like nothing very much better in

1936-414: Was not properly appreciated; even her admirers saw her as an 'unequal genius'," and in 1948 F. R. Leavis excluded Wuthering Heights from the great tradition of the English novel because it was "a 'kind of sport'—an anomaly with 'some influence of an essentially undetectable kind.'" The novelist Daphne du Maurier argued the status of Wuthering Heights as a "supreme romantic novel" in 1971: There

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