November 2012 Guest Editor Kate Mosse on Wuthering Heights...
Powerful and elegiac, a novel of drama, passion and compelling characterisation. Most exceptional of all, though, the brilliance of Bronte’s descriptions of landscape and light on the Yorkshire Moors has had a major influence on my writing about southwest France.
One of Clare Balding's favourite books.
Chosen by the public through a survey to coincide with the 10th birthday celebrations of World Book Day 2007, this title is one of ‘the ten books the nation can’t live without’. Have you read them all? Below are links to each title and position on the list.
1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
4. Harry Potter JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
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When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman into his home, he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactor's daughter, Cathy. What begins as a childhood friendship morphs over the course of years into a desperate, twisted, possessive love between the two, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy's brother, Hindley, and the restrictions of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and violent revenge, of tortured heartbreak that echoes down the generations, wrought with all the brutality, power, and wildness of the Yorkshire moors where it unfolds.
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When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman into his home, he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactor's daughter, Cathy. What begins as a childhood friendship morphs over the course of years into a desperate, twisted, possessive love between the two, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy's brother, Hindley, and the restrictions of social class that keep them apart.
Wuthering Heights features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Romance / Relationship Stories, General Fiction, Fiction
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Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Brontë and published by Modern Library an imprint of The Modern Library
Wuthering Heights has 356 pages
Yes it is part of Modern Library Torchbearers series
