Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempestuous and mythic story of Catherine Earnshaw, the precocious daughter of the house, and the ruggedly handsome, uncultured foundling her father brings home and names Heathcliff, is played out against the backdrop of English moors no less wild and raw than the love they develop for one another. The novel brings out Emily Bronte's mastery of an extremely complex structure, acute evocation of place, poetic grandeur of vision, and a highly original handling of Gothic and Romantic elements inherited from lesser works.