Wuthering Heights

When Mr. Earnshaw brings a black haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he could never have imagined the dramatic events that would follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity, and retribution—the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generations.

Wuthering Heights challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes, and gender inequality with its stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. Despite the controversy surrounding the novel at the time, this story of doomed love and revenge went on to earn its place among the masterpieces of English literature.