Questão de Língua Inglesa

Execução: Fundatec 1099_CE_14_NS_DM 23/07/2026 16:24:18 The First Edition of Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ By Ellen Wexler 01 When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847, several critics used the word 02 “strange.” As the New York Times’ B.D. McClay points out, one review simply began, “This is a 03 strange book,” while others described the novel as “strangely original” and “a strange, inartistic 04 story.” “Wuthering Heights is a strange sort of book—baffling all regular criticism; yet, it is 05 impossible to begin and not finish it,” another observed. “We strongly recommend all our 06 readers who love novelty to get this story, for we can promise them that they never have read 07 anything like it before.” 08 The novel’s first edition was divided into two volumes, released alongside a third volume 09 containing Agnes Grey, a novel by Emily’s younger sister, Anne. The siblings published under 10 the pseudonyms Ellis and Acton Bell. Of the estimated 250 copies printed, only a few complete 11 copies survive with their full-cloth binding intact. On June 30, Christie’s will sell the first edition’s 12 three volumes in one lot at an auction in London, where the collection is expected to go for 13 between $540,000 and $800,000. “The last time one appeared at auction was in 1908, so no 14 collector alive has had a chance to acquire one,” says Mark Wiltshire, a books and manuscripts 15 specialist at Christie’s. 16 When Emily and Anne saw the printed editions, they realized that the books contained a 17 number of errors. Some pages were marked with the wrong numbers, while others contained 18 incorrect or missing punctuation. Perhaps the most egregious mistakes were six misspellings 19 of “Agnes Grey” and three misspellings of “Heights”. In letters written in the weeks after 20 publication, their sister Charlotte complained that the volumes were full of “errors of the press” 21 that she described as “mortifying.” 22 Writing under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Charlotte had published her own debut novel, 23 Jane Eyre, earlier the same year, and it had been an immediate success. She was deeply 24 protective of her younger sisters, and she was disappointed that their publisher, Thomas 25 Cautley Newby, had allowed so many mistakes to make it to press. “If Mr. Newby always does 26 business in this way,” she wrote, “few authors would like to have him for their publisher a 27 second time.” Newby hoped to capitalize on the popularity of Jane Eyre, but Wuthering Heights, 28 which explored darker themes, didn’t enjoy the same level of success. 29 The story is set against the dramatic, untamed moors of Yorkshire, which is also where 30 the Brontë siblings grew up. The Brontës’ childhood was marked by tragedy, as most family 31 members died young from tuberculosis. In 1850, after Emily’s death, Charlotte’s publisher 32 released a second edition of Wuthering Heights. Charlotte fixed the errors from the first edition 33 and revealed her sister’s identity in a biographical notice. Emily didn’t live to see her novel 34 become so beloved, admired by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf. 35 Few surviving first-edition copies still have their original binding. Wiltshire has only been 36 able to track down five others: Three are in the university libraries of Leeds, Oxford, and 37 Princeton universities, according to a statement, while the fourth is housed at the British Library 38 in London. The fifth, which contains Charlotte’s annotations, is missing several pages, and it 39 sold for $86,500 in 2009. (Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-first-edition-of-emily-bronteswuthering-heights-contained-incorrect-page-numbers-missing-punctuation-and-three-misspellings-ofthe-word-heights-180989005/ – text specially adapted for this test). Mark the INCORRECT statement about the text.