Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1376 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-13
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ...As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. And how desire can kill.

Customer Reviews

Dont make prejudgements
This is a fantastic novel. I am trying to read some "classics" at the moment instead of my usual diet of Stephen King etc and this is the first one I have read that I have enjoyed from start to finish.
I think everyone will take different conclusions from this book, some will side with Heathcliff and Catherine, and some will feel sympathy for the wreckage they leave behind in their determination to be together.

The setting and the relationships between characters and the wild surroundings of the moor are also richly portrayed.

Highly recommended and no boring tale of Victorian morals at all.

'A Haunting Masterpiece....You Will Never Forget!'
I first studied Wuthering Heights as part of my A-Levels,taught to me by a quite inspirational teacher and it is a book I can return to over and over again. It is, simply one of the most poignant and unforgettable love stories ever told. The characters of Cathy and Heathcliff set against the craggy moorland scenery are indelible in English Literature and serve to live in the imagination of the reader. The Force of their destructive love serves a cycle of Love, Hate and ultimately, Revenge. Emily Bronte's genius as a poet shines in this novel through the language of Heathcliff, as 20 years after the death of Catherine, his love for her is as ardent as he declares in one of the most moving passages, " In every cloud, in every tree I am surrounded by her image....the entire world is a dreadful collection of memorandum that she did exist and that I had lost her..." This is a novel you must read at least once in your life...and feel glad and exhalted that you did!

It's Grim Up North
A true classic of English Literature that has stood the test of time, with settings and characters that have entered the national consciousness. Its raw power is amazing considering its author's age and apparent lack of experience in life.

Re-reading as an adult, one is perhaps struck by how wordy the later passages in the book are, the self destructive relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff is what stays in the reader's memory most. Unlike, say, Jane Austen's equally timeless works, it is not possible to say "Wuthering Heights" grows with repeat reading. The strange narrative devices are a bit distracting, and some sections sag.

The opening scene, in contrast,where the ghost of Cathy shatters the glass in the window of the narrator's bedroom, letting in the lashing storm, is surely one of the most striking ever written.

Graphic moments such as this opening, and the fierce, uncompromising lovers who leap from the page, make this book's reputation well deserved.