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Wuthering Heights: A Gothic Classic of Passion, Revenge, and the Yorkshire Moors
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781604591170
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Nov 13 2007
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is one of the most powerful novels in English literature: a dark story of passion, revenge, inheritance, cruelty, and spiritual unrest on the Yorkshire moors. At the centre of the novel are Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, whose fierce bond refuses the ordinary limits of family, class, love, and death. Around them Brontë builds a world of damaged households, destructive longing, social ambition, emotional violence, and brooding landscape, creating a novel that is at once Gothic, psychological, romantic, and morally unsettling.
First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights has become a defining work of Victorian fiction and one of the most discussed novels of the nineteenth century. Its layered narration, stark emotional intensity, haunted atmosphere, and refusal of easy sentiment distinguish it sharply from conventional romance. Readers of classic fiction, Gothic literature, Victorian novels, literary fiction, psychological fiction, and tragic love stories will find in Brontë's only novel a work whose wildness, intelligence, and imaginative force remain undiminished.
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