In 1967, or so, I bought a damaged copy of 'Wuthering Heights' at Jordan Marsh downtown Boston department store. They had a comfy book section back then and I got my $1.95 Modern Library edition for $1.19 because the book was damaged with a bang on the bottom. The edition was published in 1950, the year I was born.
I think the Federal minimum wage then was $1.95 and I made a special sub wage at the Boston Public Library Grove Hall Branch of $1.25 an hour. So, the book cost me an hour's work at the library putting books away, et cetera. I see that there are several pencil markings that I must have made in the margins, although when I read the volume, I do not remember. I do remember seeing the grey scale 'black and white' movie from 1939 with Laurence Olivier and Meryl Oberon. The main theme seemed to me, "you were mean to me when I was poor and little, so, now I'm going to lord it over you, ha, ha, ha."

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