After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Yorkshire Moors and despite the continued bad feeling between Cathy's brother, Hindley, and Heathcliff they're happy - until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbour. It is Catherine's eventual betrayal of Heathcliff which causes him to seek a violent revenge in this moving and intense masterpiece.
This book is part of a book series called Bloomsbury Classics .
There are 336 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .
Emily Bronte (1818-48) is perhaps best known for her one, strikingly innovative novel but was also a gifted and intense poet. Jennifer Donnelly lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is her first novel and marks the beginning of an incredibly assured and confident literary voice.
This book contains the following story:
Wuthering Heights
The story of an all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them.Raised together on the Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Catherine become lovers and soul mates so utterly inseparable that their destiny seems inevitable. But when Catherine's desire for social status results in her marriage to Heathcliff's wealthy rival, Heathcliff is consumed by revenge. And no one in his path will be spared. Catherine's betrayal has unforeseen ramifications for generations to come.
