Wuthering Heights

Liebe, Haß und Tod - ein Drama spielt sich ab auf dem Gutshof Wuthering Heights in Yorkshires düsterer Nebellandschaft. Vom Dämon der Rache und Eifersucht besessen, richtet der Findling Heathcliff ein Werk der Zerstörung an, dem auch die Angebetete Cathy zum Opfer fällt. Mehrere Generationen werden in einen Strudel rasender Leidenschaften gezogen. Emily Brontes ergreifende Geschichte voll psychologischer Raffinesse löste 1847 einen Sturm der Empörung aus.

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.
The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.