Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë's dark, brooding vision finds expression in her masterpiece of passion and force.

Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, published a year before her death in 1848 at the age of thirty, stands as perhaps the most intensely original work in the English language. In it Emily Brontë records the story of the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and the wild Heathcliff with such truth, imagination, and emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire Moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

"Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials. The statuary found a granite block on a solitary moor... with time and labour, the crag took human shape; and there it stands colossal, dark, frowning, half statue, half rock; in the former sense, terrible and goblin-like; in the latter, almost beautiful, for its colouring is of mellow grey, and moorland moss clothes it; and heath, with its blooming bells and balmy fragrance, grows faithfully close to the giant's foot"