Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
'I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.'
As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.
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Author : Emily Brontë
Edition : Penguin Clothbound Classic, Hardback, 416 pages
ISBN : 9780141040356
Weight: 534g
Dimensions: 204 x 138 x 38mm
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