Wuthering Heights

The classic tale of tormented love and the inexorable pull of the past from one of historys greatest literary talents with an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactors daughter Cathy. But over the years their childhood friendship morphs into a desperate twisted possessive love as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathys brother and the confines of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and tortured heartbreak reverberating through the generations wrought with all the brutality power and wildness of the Yorkshire moors. With striking force Emily Brontës mesmerizing prose claws at the nature of human folly defying the gender religious and social mores of its day. Wuthering Heights is a transcendent mystifying masterpiece that examines the cruelty of love and the ways in which the past scratching at a windowpane with ghostly fingers never lets us go. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms with boldness creativity and a spirit of resistance.