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
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, a love story unfolds that is as tempestuous and unrelenting as the landscape itself — Wuthering Heights chronicles the obsessive, all-consuming passion between the brooding foundling Heathcliff and the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw, a bond so fierce it transcends social class, moral convention, and even death. From the moment Heathcliff is brought into the Earnshaw household, the novel sets in motion a decades-long saga of desire, betrayal, cruelty, and revenge, told through a masterfully layered narrative that spirals across two generations and two neighbouring estates. Emily Brontë's sole novel stands as one of the most radical and psychologically penetrating works of the Victorian era, defying the sentimental domestic fiction of its time with its unflinching portrayal of destructive love and social ambition. Her prose is at once lyrical and savage, imbuing the moorland setting with a Gothic atmosphere that mirrors the tormented inner lives of her characters. The novel argues that passion untamed by compassion becomes a force of ruin — and yet, Brontë never fully condemns her protagonists, leaving the reader to wrestle with their own moral judgements long after the final page is turned.
Author: Emily Brontë
Format: Other binding
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, a love story unfolds that is as tempestuous and unrelenting as the landscape itself — Wuthering Heights chronicles the obsessive, all-consuming passion between the brooding foundling Heathcliff and the headstrong Catherine Earnshaw, a bond so fierce it transcends social class, moral convention, and even death. From the moment Heathcliff is brought into the Earnshaw household, the novel sets in motion a decades-long saga of desire, betrayal, cruelty, and revenge, told through a masterfully layered narrative that spirals across two generations and two neighbouring estates. Emily Brontë's sole novel stands as one of the most radical and psychologically penetrating works of the Victorian era, defying the sentimental domestic fiction of its time with its unflinching portrayal of destructive love and social ambition. Her prose is at once lyrical and savage, imbuing the moorland setting with a Gothic atmosphere that mirrors the tormented inner lives of her characters. The novel argues that passion untamed by compassion becomes a force of ruin — and yet, Brontë never fully condemns her protagonists, leaving the reader to wrestle with their own moral judgements long after the final page is turned.