Skip to main content
Thumbnail for Wuthering heights

Wuthering heights

Bronte, Emily, 1818-18481993
Books
This novel is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. Humiliated by Catherine's brother and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, Heathcliff seeks revenge. Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Main title:
Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte.
Imprint:
Ware : Wordsworth Classics, 1992 (1993[printing])
Collation:
417 p. ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
On cover: "Complete and unabridged.".Includes bibliography.
ISBN:
9781853260018 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.8
Language:
English
BRN:
1666441
View my active saved list
0 items in my active saved list