Published in the nineteenth century, this novel narrates the story of two families, the Earnshaws of Wuthering Heights and the Lintons of Thrushcross Grange. Mr. Earnshaw has two children, Hindley and Catherine. One day, while returning from a business trip, he brings home an orphan and names him Heathcliff. Hindley hates the boy and provokes him constantly, whereas Catherine and Heathcliff become the best of friends. Both share a wild, passionate nature and grow up roaming about the moors. The charming, slightly effeminate, Edgar Linton falls in
love with Catherine. Despite being in love with Heathcliff herself, she chooses to marry Edgar since she feels that marrying Heathcliff would be beneath her dignity. The embittered Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights and returns years later, a wealthy, successful man. He marries Edgar’s sister, Isabella, only for the sake of torturing her whereas Catherine dies pining for him. He destroys several lives over a period of time in his violent desire for revenge.
Heathcliff is the protagonist as well as the anti-hero in this tragic tale of love and retribution and he invokes hatred and sympathy alike from the
readers. This phenomenal classic makes the readers go through a gamut of emotions; truly amazing and highly recommended.
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