Wuthering Heights
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Wuthering Heights is one of the most passionate and enduring works of English literature, a dark and brooding tale of obsessive love set against the wild, windswept moorlands of Yorkshire. Emily Brontë chronicles the turbulent relationship between the fierce and vengeful Heathcliff, a foundling taken in by the Earnshaw family, and the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw, whose bond transcends class, time, and even death. Told through a series of nested narratives, the novel uncovers the destructive consequences of thwarted desire as Heathcliff's wounded pride curdles into a lifelong quest for revenge against those he holds responsible for separating him from Catherine. Written with raw emotional intensity and Gothic atmosphere, it stands as a singular achievement in Victorian fiction — a novel that defies easy moral judgement and continues to haunt readers more than a century and a half after its first publication in 1847.
Author: Emily Brontë
Format: Paperback
Published: 1965, Penguin English Library
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Wuthering Heights is one of the most passionate and enduring works of English literature, a dark and brooding tale of obsessive love set against the wild, windswept moorlands of Yorkshire. Emily Brontë chronicles the turbulent relationship between the fierce and vengeful Heathcliff, a foundling taken in by the Earnshaw family, and the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw, whose bond transcends class, time, and even death. Told through a series of nested narratives, the novel uncovers the destructive consequences of thwarted desire as Heathcliff's wounded pride curdles into a lifelong quest for revenge against those he holds responsible for separating him from Catherine. Written with raw emotional intensity and Gothic atmosphere, it stands as a singular achievement in Victorian fiction — a novel that defies easy moral judgement and continues to haunt readers more than a century and a half after its first publication in 1847.