Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

The classic tale of tormented love and the inexorable pull of the past, from one of history's greatest literary talents When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman into his home, he quickly forms a close bond with benefactor's daughter, Cathy. What begins as a childhood friendship morphs over the course of years into a desperate, twisted, possessive love between the two, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy's brother Hindley and the restrictions of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and violent revenge, of tortured heartbreak that echoes down the generations, wrought with all the brutality, power, and wildness of the Yorkshire moors where it unfolds. With a force and irreverence that her contemporaries took as proof of male authorship, Emily Bront 's mesmerizing prose claws at the nature of the human soul and its impurities, flying in the face of the gender, religious, and social mores of its day. Wuthering Heights is a transcendent, mystifying masterpiece that examines the compulsions of cruelty, the cruelty of love, and the ways in which the past, scratching at a windowpane with ghostly fingers, never lets us go.