WUTHERING HEIGHTS - EMILY BRONTE - READERS DIGEST colour illus Skip Liepke afterword Jack Sullivan

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.

Readers Digest 1991 SA  Lovey book in good condition, well-binded clean white pages, gilt pattern on front hardback very small chip on bottom rear (with brochure of Readers Digest re Wuthering Heights) 303 pages.