Wuthering Heights
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few novels in the English literary canon possess the raw, elemental power of Wuthering Heights — a story of obsessive love and savage revenge set against the wind-scoured Yorkshire moors. At its centre is the brooding, unknowable Heathcliff, an orphan raised by the Earnshaw family whose all-consuming passion for the spirited Catherine Earnshaw transcends class, cruelty, and even death itself. When circumstance and social ambition conspire to tear them apart, Brontë chronicles a descent into vengeance and ruin that echoes across two generations, leaving no family untouched by its consequences. Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, stands as one of the most audacious achievements of Victorian literature — a work that rejected the moral tidiness of its era in favour of psychological ferocity and Gothic grandeur. Her prose is atmospheric and unrelenting, painting a landscape that mirrors the turbulent inner lives of its characters with remarkable precision. This Reader's Digest edition, illustrated by Skip Liepke and with an afterword by Jack Sullivan, presents the text in a form befitting its status as one of the world's greatest reads. Whether encountering Heathcliff for the first time or returning to the moors once more, the reader will find it impossible to leave entirely unscathed.
Author: Emily Brontë
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few novels in the English literary canon possess the raw, elemental power of Wuthering Heights — a story of obsessive love and savage revenge set against the wind-scoured Yorkshire moors. At its centre is the brooding, unknowable Heathcliff, an orphan raised by the Earnshaw family whose all-consuming passion for the spirited Catherine Earnshaw transcends class, cruelty, and even death itself. When circumstance and social ambition conspire to tear them apart, Brontë chronicles a descent into vengeance and ruin that echoes across two generations, leaving no family untouched by its consequences. Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, stands as one of the most audacious achievements of Victorian literature — a work that rejected the moral tidiness of its era in favour of psychological ferocity and Gothic grandeur. Her prose is atmospheric and unrelenting, painting a landscape that mirrors the turbulent inner lives of its characters with remarkable precision. This Reader's Digest edition, illustrated by Skip Liepke and with an afterword by Jack Sullivan, presents the text in a form befitting its status as one of the world's greatest reads. Whether encountering Heathcliff for the first time or returning to the moors once more, the reader will find it impossible to leave entirely unscathed.