Tabs & Twists
Wuthering Heights
On the bleak Yorkshire moors, the love between Catherine and Heathcliff turns into a lifelong, destructive obsession.
- Genre
- Drama
- Subgenre
- GothicRomantic dramaFamily saga
- Setting / Period
- Rural England
- First published
- 1847
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
Review
A stranger takes a house in Yorkshire and hears the story of the neighboring estate: the foundling Heathcliff, his ferocious bond with Catherine Earnshaw, and the decades of revenge that follow when she marries someone else.
This is not a love story in the comforting sense. Nobody here is likable for long, and that is the point. Brontë treats passion as a force of nature, closer to a storm than a romance, and the moors are less a backdrop than a character.
The nested narration can feel awkward at first, but it lets the reader see the tale through unreliable witnesses. It is harsh, strange and oddly modern, a novel that still unsettles people who expected a Victorian love story.
