Wuthering Heights
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English canon have burned as fiercely as Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel and one of the most electrifying works of the nineteenth century. Set against the savage, wind-lashed moorlands of Yorkshire, it chronicles the doomed and ferocious love between the foundling Heathcliff and the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw — a passion so consuming it transcends death itself, warping the lives of two generations and leaving a trail of ruin in its wake. Brontë constructs her narrative with extraordinary psychological intensity, wielding a layered frame structure — narrated through the unreliable eyes of the genteel Lockwood and the sharp-tongued housekeeper Nelly Dean — to create a story that is simultaneously a Gothic romance, a savage social critique, and a meditation on the nature of the soul. The novel's themes of class, cruelty, obsession, and revenge are rendered in prose of wild, elemental beauty that continues to unsettle and astonish readers nearly two centuries after its first publication. This edition, with an introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, presents one of literature's most hauntingly irresolvable love stories — one that asks, with chilling sincerity, whether love and destruction are truly distinct forces at all.
Author: Emily Brontë
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English canon have burned as fiercely as Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel and one of the most electrifying works of the nineteenth century. Set against the savage, wind-lashed moorlands of Yorkshire, it chronicles the doomed and ferocious love between the foundling Heathcliff and the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw — a passion so consuming it transcends death itself, warping the lives of two generations and leaving a trail of ruin in its wake. Brontë constructs her narrative with extraordinary psychological intensity, wielding a layered frame structure — narrated through the unreliable eyes of the genteel Lockwood and the sharp-tongued housekeeper Nelly Dean — to create a story that is simultaneously a Gothic romance, a savage social critique, and a meditation on the nature of the soul. The novel's themes of class, cruelty, obsession, and revenge are rendered in prose of wild, elemental beauty that continues to unsettle and astonish readers nearly two centuries after its first publication. This edition, with an introduction by Bonamy Dobrée, presents one of literature's most hauntingly irresolvable love stories — one that asks, with chilling sincerity, whether love and destruction are truly distinct forces at all.