Wuthering Heights - by Emily Jane Brontë & Emily Jane Bronte & Ellis Bell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>'Emily's one novel, Wuthering Heights, is a thunderstorm.' - The Atlantic Wuthering Heights has achieved an almost mythical status. It is a unique masterpiece of the imagination: an unsettling, transgressive novel about obsession, violence and death. Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>'Emily's one novel, <em>Wuthering Heights</em>, is a thunderstorm.' - <em>The Atlantic</em></p><p><em>Wuthering Heights</em> has achieved an almost mythical status. It is a unique masterpiece of the imagination: an unsettling, transgressive novel about obsession, violence and death. Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written. </p><p>"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"</p><p>Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte's death at the age of thirty, <em>Wuthering Heights</em> has proved to be one of the nineteenth century's most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactor's daughter, Catherine. Through Catherine's betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Incorporating elements of many genres--from gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegory--and transcending them all, <em>Wuthering Heights</em> is a mystifying and powerful tour de force.</p><p>'To appreciate the greatness of <em>Wuthering Heights</em>, I had to stop trying to read it as a love story. It's when I began to read it instead as a story of intergenerational abuse, and how that abuse creates monsters, that I started to understand why it's such a beloved book.' - Vox</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'Emily's one novel, <em>Wuthering Heights</em>, is a thunderstorm.' - <em>The Atlantic</em></p><p>'<em>Wuthering Heights</em> is a cult classic ... Brontë speaks of dreams, dreams that pass through the mind "like wine through water, and alter the colour" of thoughts. If the experience of reading <em>Wuthering Heights</em> feels like a suspension in a state of waking nightmare, what a richly-hued vision of the fantastical it is.' - <em>The Conversation</em></p><p>'To appreciate the greatness of <em>Wuthering Heights</em>, I had to stop trying to read it as a love story. It's when I began to read it instead as a story of intergenerational abuse, and how that abuse creates monsters, that I started to understand why it's such a beloved book. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece of literary genius.' - <em>Vox</em></p><p>'<em>Wuthering Heights</em> might have been written by an eagle.' - G. K. Chesteron</p><p>'It is as if Emily Bronte could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.' - Virginia Woolf</p><p>'<em>Wuthering Heights</em> takes place in a viciously brutal world, one in which casual interfamily violence is the norm, and it is clear-eyed about the emotional dynamics that build such a world and allow it to flourish. But that world is a nightmare. It's an undeniably well-crafted nightmare of deep psychological resonance, and it is rich and immersive, so that when you read it, you feel that you are trapped on the moors and there are people screaming all around you. It's an incredible literary effect.' - <em>Vox</em></p><br>
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