Heathcliff, a dark foundling taken in by the Earnshaws of Wuthering Heights, grows up inseparable from Catherine, until her brother Hindley degrades him and she chooses to marry the refined Edgar Linton of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff vanishes, returns wealthy, and sets out to take both houses from their heirs. The story, relayed by the servant Nelly Dean to the newcomer Lockwood, passes into a second generation and a fragile reconciliation.
This is a book for readers who want Gothic intensity rather than a tidy love story. You get a bleak, memorable setting and a study of resentment that few Victorian novels match.
Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Anaconda Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783866474314
- Language
- DE
