Wuthering Heights (Young Adult Version)

Author: Emily Bront?
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Wuthering Heights is a brilliant and genius work by the renowned British author Emily Bront?. The entire setting is a closed small society—two isolated estates and the open countryside and moors. The characters in the book embody two extremes: love and hatred, with extreme love intertwined with extreme hatred. The book depicts the story of Gypsy orphan Heathcliff, who is adopted by the old master of the estate. After being humiliated and failing in love, he goes abroad to make a fortune and returns to take revenge on the landlord who married his beloved Catherine and his children. The entire narrative is filled with a strong spirit of fighting against oppression and striving for happiness, yet it is always shrouded in a strange and tense romantic atmosphere. It was once considered a naive fantasy by a female writer detached from reality, but when combined with the intense class struggle in the region it depicts and the social phenomena of Britain.