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Wuthering Heights : Complete Original Text
Wuthering Heights Complete Original Text Author:Emily Bronte The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. — Now considered a classic of Engli... more »sh literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, with many horrified by the stark depictions of mental and physical cruelty. Though Charlotte Brontė's Jane Eyre was originally considered the best of the Brontė sisters' works, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior.« less