Wuthering Heights Synopsis
Emily Brontë's classic novel of love and revenge is presented here in a beautiful hardback edition with gold embossing and stencilled page edges.
First published in 1847, this Gothic novel by Emily Brontë is a tragic tale of destructive love and obsession that will leave readers enthralled and captivated until the very end. When Heathcliff falls for his childhood companion Catherine Earnshaw, their conflicting personalities and societal constraints create obstacles that span generations. Set in the desolate Yorkshire moors, this is a haunting novel about the dangers of desire in a world that seeks to uphold traditions and civility.
This Arcturus Decorative Classics edition with a beautiful, gold-embossed cover design, ivory pages, full-colour endpaper artwork and sprayed edges is the perfect gift for any Brontë lover.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Decorative Classics series brings together elegant hardcover editions of classic works, featuring Wibalin binding, stencilled page edges, foil accents and patterned endpapers. Beautifully crafted with a traditional design sensibility, this series will make a handsome collection in any home library.
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About Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë lived from 1818 to 1848. Although she wrote only Wuthering Heights and about a dozen poms she is accepted as one of the most gifted writers ever. Perhaps the intensity of her writing grew out of the extraordinary pressures of her home life.
Emily's mother died when she was three and she lived with her four sisters and one brother in a bleak, isolated Yorkshire village, Haworth. Her father doted on his only son, Branwell, and expected little from his daughters, they surprised him while Branwell wasted his life and died an alcoholic and drug addict. The girls suffered dreadfully at a cheap boarding school, the oldest two dying of malnutrition. Emily, Charlotte and Anne were brought home just in time but Emily never lost her terrible fear of institutions and of being closed in. The sisters later became governesses to help support Branwell, seen by their father as a future great artist. They also began to publish their writing, under male pen-names as there was much prejudice against women writers. Their first book, a collection of poetry, failed but Emily's novel Wuthering Heights, was highly acclaimed and is still widely read today.
Emily seldom left her home village yet produced one of the most powerful novels of the inner self ever written. She caught a cold at her brother’s funeral in 1848 and died a few months later.
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