Detailing Cathy and Heathcliff’s self-destructive relationship amidst the wild, feral atmosphere of the Yorkshire moors, Emily Bronte’s sole published novel evokes the violence of doomed romance like no other work of literature.
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In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere...
As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house, Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget.
There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141040356
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 539 g
Dimensions: 205 x 137 x 34 mm
"It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that theytranscend reality."--Virginia Woolf
I seem to spend a lot of my time praising novels for aspects like their ingenuity, their intelligence, their sheer descriptive prowess. And these are all important qualities in a book. But what I like best is a good... More
I find it hard to put into words how much I adore this book. It has everything you could possibly want from a gothic romance: ghostly visitations; a dark, Byronic-hero; a wayward, passionate young woman; vast, rolling... More
Bronte brilliantly masters the anti-hero, the dark, addictive side of love and social divides.
The reader should be objective about the unreliable narrators.
On a shallow note, this book has the most beautiful cover!
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