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.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdISBN: 9781853260018Weight: 173 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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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