WUTHERING HEIGHTS - EMILY BRONTE - colour plate N BOOKER - World Publishing Co HARDB 1947 ED

Emily Bronte's novel is about two families in Yorkshire, a brooding Byronic hero, and a love that is stronger than death. Wuthering Heights is her only novel--unless it is true that, upon her death, her sister Charlotte burned the manuscript of another. Drawing on the Gothic tradition, it is a tale of obsession, and tells the story of Catherine Earnshaw, a wilfull and romantic girl brought up to be a lady, and Heathcliff, the mysterious gypsy orphan. The relationship between these two remains tempestuous to its end, and affects future generations of these complicated families. The novel's complex structure and point of view were ahead of their time. In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation.

1947 World Publishing Company illustrated hardback, well-binded, clear text, inscription of previous owner, few pencil marks, 352, pages, light wear to cloth of covers.