Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Brontë
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.
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