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18%OFFEmily Brontë - Wuthering Heights - 9780141439556 - 9780141439556
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Wuthering Heights

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Description for Wuthering Heights Paperback. Intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. Editor(s): Nestor, Pauline. Num Pages: 416 pages, chronology, geanealogical table, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.

'Wuthering Heights is commonly thought of as "romantic", but try rereading it without being astonished by the extremes of physical and psychological violence' Jeanette Winterson

Emily Brontë's novel of impossible desires, violence and transgression is a masterpiece of intense, unsettling power. It begins in a snowstorm, when Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, her betrayal of him and the bitter vengeance ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141439556
SKU
9780141439556
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818-48) along with her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, is one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century. She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel but was also a gifted and intense poet. Pauline Nestor teaches English at Monash University, Australia. Lucasta Miller was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Reviews for Wuthering Heights
"It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality."
Virginia Woolf

Goodreads reviews for Wuthering Heights


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