Wuthering Heights (Wordsworth Classics) [Paperback]

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This Wordsworth Edition contains an exclusive 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.

Reader: Juliet Stevenson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

First published in 1847, Emily Brontë's classic tale of passion, obsession, cruelty and revenge has lost none of its power. At its heart lies the tempestuous relationship of Catherine Earnshaw of 'Wuthering Heights' and Heathcliff, the 'gypsy brat' plucked from the streets of Liverpool by her father. Their tragedy, with its terrible consequences for those who become caught up in it, unfolds in a wild moorland landscape as dark and harsh as the events themselves.