Cime tempestose

A traveler named Lockwood rents Thrushcross Grange and visits his landlord Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights, a gloomy farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. His housekeeper Nelly Dean tells him how Heathcliff, a foundling, was raised alongside Catherine Earnshaw, how she married Edgar Linton, and how Heathcliff came back to ruin the families through marriage and inheritance. Catherine's death does not end his rage, and the second generation, Cathy, Hareton and Linton, must live with it.

Someone who wants a wild, atmospheric tale of love as destruction should try it. You come away with a memory of the moors and a sense of how revenge can consume a life.

Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

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