Wuthering Heights

One of the best and most endurin glove stories ever written, Wuthering Heights is a novel of immense power, filled with passion and beauty and an uncanny understanding of some terrible truths about men and women. There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than Emily Bronte's only novel. Wuthering Heights is the story of Heathcliffe, a tormented orphan, who falls wildly bu hopelessly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor. Emily Bronte uses the violence and miser resulting from their thwarted longing to create a novel that is a masterpiece of psychological insight and compassionate understanding. (front flap)