Wuthering Heights
Edition: printing (4)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1993
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781566193085
Description: One of the most powerful and original novels of English literature, Wuthering Heights is more than just a story of lbve. It is a story of grand passion, of devotion, and of retribution. It is the story of two families of the Yorkshire moors and the adopted foundling, named Heathcliff, who one day lands among them.

Heathcliff, a darkly handsome boy of fiery temperament, is raised among the windblown moors of Wuthering Heights by a family farmers, the Earnshaws. Heathcliff quickly becomes a favorite of Mr. Earnshaw, inciting the jealousy of his son, Hindley Earnshaw. The younger Earnshaw's cruelty will in turn spark a lifelong vow of vengeance from the intense, feral Heathcliff.

At Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff also meets the beautiful, spirit- ed Catherine Earnshaw. From mischievous childhood playmates, the two grow to recognize that they are soul mates, but theirs is not an easy love. Their twinned tempestuous natures prove t(X) explosive for a conventional happy ending. Their fractious bond forms the seed of this remarkable work of imagination.

Some 150 years after Wuthering Heights was first published, its power and rough beauty still fascinate readers. Its exploration of both the radiant and darker flames of human passion still rings true. Emily Bronté (1818-1848) was born in Yorkshire, England, the fifth child of an Irish clergyman and a mother who died of cancer when Emily was three. After two daughters died at boarding school, their father brought Emily and Charlotte home. The three Bronté sisters turned to novel writing, but Emily's Wuthering Heights initially failed to gain an audience. She died at the age of thirty without seeing the success of her book.
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