Young Reading Plus Classics Retold: Wuthering Heights

Young Reading Plus Classics Retold: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Brontë
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781474924962

A gripping story of love and revenge, set in the dramatic backdrop of the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century. Heathcliff is brought up by the Earnshaw family, but bullied and humiliated by Catherine Earnshaw's brother. He leaves, wrongly believing his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, and returns years later, a wealthy man, to exact revenge. A brand new series of literary classics retold for young readers in a simplified, shortened and accessible way. Specially written for confident readers, this is a great way to get children ready to step out of the Readers world into the fantastic world of fiction, as this series will build up confidence and stamina in readers as well as a sense of achievement in discovering them. These are also the perfect size for book reports at school, or reading challenges in libraries!

Wuthering Heights: Usborne Classics Retold

Wuthering Heights: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: Jane Bingham
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409567877

Emily Brontë's haunting tale of love and revenge, rivetingly retold for today's readers, remains as powerful and gripping as the day it was first written. High on the windswept Yorkshire moors, an old farmhouse hides dark secrets. What is the strange history of Wuthering Heights? Why has Heathcliff, its mysterious owner, cut himself off from the world - and who is the unearthly girl wandering the moors at night?

The Brontës Children of the Moors

The Brontës Children of the Moors
Author: Mick Manning
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781445147321

A highly-illustrated retelling of the Brontë sisters life in Haworth in the Yorkshire Dales told from Charlotte Brontë's point of view. Produced to coincide with 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë, this book introduces the three extraordinary Brontë sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne. We also meet their brother Branwell. With a mix of strong story-telling and wonderful illustration, Mick Manning and Brita Granström relate the sister's tragically short lives in the remote village of Haworth in the Yorkshire Dales. They explore how the girls were inspired to become writers and the sensation their books caused when people realised they had been written by women. Each of the sister's greatest novels, Jane Eyre (Charlotte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne) and Wuthering Heights (Emily), are simply retold in engaging comic-strip form. The illustrations and text of this book really capture the life of the children of the moors and how the magic and wildness of their surroundings inspired their work. It is perhaps not surprising as Mick Manning was born and brought up in Haworth and, as a child, even played a shepherd boy in a BBC adapation of Wuthering Heights.

Frankenstein: Usborne Classics Retold

Frankenstein: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: John Grant
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 140956861X

As lightning flashes across the night sky, Victor Frankenstein succeeds in the ultimate scientific experiment – the creation of life. But lonely and rejected, the being he creates soon turns on Victor and his family, with terrifying and tragic results. Rivetingly retold for a new generation of readers, Mary Shelley's classic horror story remains as powerful and gripping as the day it was first written. Includes informative notes on both the author and the original text.

Dracula: Usborne Classics Retold

Dracula: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: Mike Stocks
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409568598

When Jonathan Harker arrives at Castle Dracula, he has no idea of his host's horrible nocturnal habits. Can the eccentric Professor Van Helsing and his brave young friends take on the vilest vampire in the world? A modern and accessible retelling of Bram Stoker's classic horror story, guaranteed to grip young readers. Includes informative notes on both the author and the original text.

Kidnapped: Usborne Classics Retold

Kidnapped: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: Henry Brook
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409568407

Rivetingly retold for today's readers, Robert Louis Stevenson's stirring tale of intrigue and adventure in the Scottish Highlands is as fresh and exciting as the day it was first written. After the death of his parents, young David Balfour is sent to stay with his mysterious Uncle Ebenezer. When David discovers a family secret that could change his life forever, he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. His only chance to escape is to follow a Highland warrior, Alan Breck, on a desperate and dangerous adventure.

Tom Sawyer: Usborne Classics Retold

Tom Sawyer: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409585441

Mark Twain's classic story, rivetingly retold for today's younger readers. In his sleepy little town, Tom Sawyer dreams of becoming a pirate, an explorer or an outlaw. But after witnessing a gruesome crime in the graveyard, he sets off on an adventure far more thrilling than he could have imagined. Clearly written in a modern, approachable style, this book is designed to introduce young readers to this much-loved classic story.

Jane Eyre: Usborne Classics Retold

Jane Eyre: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: Anna Claybourne
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409567850

Rivetingly retold for today's readers, Charlotte Brontë's classic story of thwarted love and dark secrets remains as fresh and exciting as the day it was first written. Jane Eyre is a poor orphan who has no one to protect her from bullying relations and school masters. Determined to change her luck, she becomes a governess and settles happily into a new life at Thornfield Hall. Before long, Jane realizes Thornfield and its owner, Mr. Rochester, are hiding secrets from her. Whose menacing laugh does she keep hearing? How did the fire start that almost cost Mr. Rochester his life? And why are there screams in the night?

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The tale of Heathcliff's and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte claiming Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers. The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both thems and many around them. Now considered a classic of English literature, the novel's innovative structure, which has been likened to a series of Matryoshka dolls, met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared.

Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold

Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold
Author: Mike Stocks
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409569179

Six spine-tingling stories dug up and dusted down for today's readers. Enter the terrifying world of Victorian ghouls and ghostly apparitions – if you dare.