Wuthering Heights has often been considered a romantic story, but reread it without being surprised by the extremes of physical and psychological violence. Jeanette Winterson describes Emily Brontë's novel as a masterpiece of impossible desires, violence, and transgression, filled with intense and disturbing power. The story opens in a snowstorm, when Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter in Wuthering Heights. There he discovers the history of the tumultuous events that took place years earlier: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, her betrayal of him, and the bitter revenge he now exacts on the innocent heirs of the past.
This book, edited with an introduction and notes by Pauline Nestor and a foreword by Lucasta Miller, reveals the deep emotions and moral complexity that distinguish this classic novel. Thanks to Intertaal, your trusted supplier, you can count on fast delivery, so you can quickly embark on this captivating reading experience.