Wuthering Heights

About the book

A visitor to the Yorkshire moors finds his landlord's household difficult to understand and turns to a longtime servant for its history. Her account leads back to the arrival of Heathcliff, an outsider taken into the Earnshaw family, and to the intense attachments and resentments that follow. Brontë builds the novel through recollection, competing judgments, and echoes between generations. Love is entangled with property, humiliation, and the desire to possess another person's future. The exposed landscape gives these domestic struggles a powerful atmosphere without making them simple or natural. Readers must continually reconsider the people whose stories they hear and the motives of those telling them. This is a demanding family history in which intimacy can become a form of confinement.

• Possession and attachment
• Revenge
• Inherited conflict

Why read it

For a fiercely concentrated world whose layered storytelling keeps judgment unsettled.

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