Wuthering Heights
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.
It has also inspired one of the greatest songs ever 🎵