Wuthering Heights (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In a house haunted by memories the past is everywhere ... 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. Review It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that theytranscend reality.--Virginia Woolf About the Author Emily Brontë (1818-48) along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne is one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century. She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel but was also a gifted and intense poet. Pauline Nestor teaches English at Monash University Australia. Lucasta Miller was educated at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. chapter 11801.I have just returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropists Heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows as I rode up and when his fingers sheltered themselves with a jealous resolution still further in his waistcoat as I announced my name.‘Mr. Heathcliff? I said.A nod was the answer.‘Mr. Lockwood your new tenant sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts‘Thrushcross Grange is my own sir he interrupted wincing. ‘I should not allow any one to inconvenience me if I could hinder itwalk in!The ‘walk in was uttered with closed teeth and expressed the sentiment ‘Go to the Deuce: even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathizing movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.When he saw my horses breast fairly pushing the barrier he did pull out his hand to unchain it and then sullenly preceded me up the causeway calling as we entered the court‘Joseph take Mr. Lockwoods horse; and bring up some wine.‘Here we have the whole establishment of domestics I suppose was the reflection suggested by this compound order. ‘No wonder the grass grows up between the flags and cattle are the only hedge cutters.Joseph was an elderly nay an old man: very old perhaps though hale and sinewy. ‘The Lord help us! he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure while relieving me of my horse: looking meantime in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliffs dwelling. ‘Wuthering being a significant provincial adjective descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure bracing venti