'May you not rest,as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me,then'Lockwood,the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors,is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights,the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw,and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation,their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780143105435Number of pages: 352Weight: 380 gDimensions: 212 x 144 x 28 mm
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"It is as if Emily Bront 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
Emily Bronte
One of the most celebrated and popular English poets and novelists of the nineteenth century,Emily Bront is best-known as the author of the passionate novel of doomed love,Wuthering Heights.
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