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Romance · 1847 · English

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

A fierce story of love and revenge unfolding across generations on the Yorkshire moors.

About this book

A visitor to the Yorkshire moors hears the history of two neighboring households and the intense bond between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Childhood attachments harden into injuries that shape a second generation.

Emily Brontë uses layered narrators and a wild landscape to explore desire, cruelty, belonging, and revenge. The wish to possess another person becomes a destructive force in this emotionally turbulent novel.

The narrators do not offer a simple, neutral account, and part of the experience is deciding how to understand their judgments. Weather, houses, and the open moor are more than backgrounds: they carry the emotional pressure of a story that repeatedly crosses boundaries.

Author
Emily Brontë
First published
1847
Category
Romance
Language
English

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