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Published on Sep 13, 2012 | 336 Pages
A mesmerizing classic that explores the darker side of love and obsession and was the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
“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
Wealthy Catherine and orphan Heathcliff share a raw, raging passion for each other.
But because of Heathcliff’s social status, their love is thwarted.
Jealousy, revenge, and bitterness ravage the moors as Catherine’s choices tear her family—and her love—apart.
Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author’s death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language.
“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
Wealthy Catherine and orphan Heathcliff share a raw, raging passion for each other.
But because of Heathcliff’s social status, their love is thwarted.
Jealousy, revenge, and bitterness ravage the moors as Catherine’s choices tear her family—and her love—apart.
Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author’s death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language.
Author
Emily Bronte
Emily Jane Brontë was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly-knit, English provincial family. Born in 1818, she shared the parsonage of the town of Haworth, Yorkshire, with her older sister, Charlotte; her brother, Branwell; her younger sister, Anne; and her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë. All five were poets and writers, and all but Branwell would publish at least one book. Fantasy was the Brontë children’s one relief from the rigors of religion and the bleakness of life in an impoverished region. In 1845, Charlotte Brontë came across a manuscript volume of her sister’s poems. At her sister’s urging, Emily’s poems, along with Anne’s and Charlotte’s, were published pseudonymously in 1846. An almost complete silence greeted this volume, but the three sisters, buoyed by the fact of publication, immediately began to write novels. Emily’s effort was Wuthering Heights; appearing in 1847, it was treated at first as a lesser work by Charlotte, whose Jane Eyre had already been published to great acclaim. Emily Brontë’s name did not emerge from behind her pseudonym of Ellis Bell until the second edition of her novel appeared in 1850.
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