Wuthering Heights
Edition: reprint of 1992 edition
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Ware
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781853260018
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Literature & Fiction
Description: Wuthering Heights is the wild, passionate story of 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.
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