This edition includes an Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. At the centre of Wuthering Heights lies a wild, passionate story of intense, almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the foundling adopted by her father. Following Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and, wrongly convinced that his love for Catherine goes unreciprocated, abandons Wuthering Heights altogether, returning years later as a wealthy and polished man determined to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. Chaotic and unremittingly violent in its action, the novel nonetheless achieves a rare unity through its accomplished handling of a complex structure, its evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting, and its poetic grandeur of vision – together making it a unique masterpiece of English literature.
ISBN 13: 9781853260018
Author: Emily Bronte
