On the Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw form an attachment that neither marriage nor death manages to settle.
Emily Bronte tells the story through servants and lodgers rather than the lovers themselves, letting rumour and memory shape what a reader is given. Pride, class and betrayal turn early affection into a campaign of revenge reaching well into a second generation, and the moorland weather runs through the book as an equal presence.
A closer look:
• A gothic novel driven by revenge as much as by love
• Narration handed to observers with blind spots of their own
• Two households and two generations caught in one quarrel
• Landscape used throughout to mirror temperament
Intended for readers of Victorian fiction, literature students and anyone drawn to darker romantic novels, available at Boipoka.