A gripping story of love & revenge set in the dramatic backdrop of the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century Heathcliff is brought up by the Earnshaw family but bullied & humiliated by Catherine Earnshaw's brother He leaves wrongly believing his love for Catherine is not reciprocated & returns years later a wealthy man to exact revenge Illustrations Full colour throughout ...

Since its original publication in 1847 the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff & Catherine has long echoed on the moors After being spurned by his lover & degraded by his adoptive family Heathcliff leaves his home in Yorkshire only to return wealthy educated & seeking retribution Obsession vengeance & jealousy will pour from this tangle of lovers in Emily Bronte's only published novel of unrequited love Explore Bronte's world of crime & punishment nature & culture & love & loss Complete & unabridged Wuthering Heights is an essential collectible that is both elegant & portable ...

Be transported to the wild Yorkshire moors & a powerful tale of love loss & revenge Choose your favourite pens or pencils & add colour to the evocative ink line designs intricate patterns & compelling scenes in this truly atmospheric colouring book Filled with handpicked"ations
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Ken Hutchison stars as the brooding & tormented lover Heathcliff in this BBC television adaptation of Emily Bronte&s classic novel Adopted as a boy by the kindly Mr Earnshaw (John Collin) Heathcliff comes to live with the family at their home Wuthering Heights in the Yorkshire moors He soon falls in love with Earnshaw&s headstrong daughter Cathy (Kay Adshead) a doomed relationship that plunges them both into despair when Cathy agrees to marry her rich neighbour Edgar Linton (David Robb) Tortured by his love the dark & sinister Heathcliff refuses to relinquish his emotional hold on Cathy & does everything in his power to destroy the lives of her & her family Synopsis An elegant adaptation of Emily Bronte&s unforgettable romance filmed on the wild Yorkshire moors Filled with passion jealousy hatred & revenge this is the full story of the windswept lovers Heathcliffe & Kathy ...

Ken Hutchison stars as the brooding & tormented lover Heathcliff in this BBC television adaptation of Emily Bronte&s classic novel Adopted as a boy by the kindly Mr Earnshaw (John Collin) Heathcliff comes to live with the family at their home Wuthering Heights in the Yorkshire moors He soon falls in love with Earnshaw&s headstrong daughter Cathy (Kay Adshead) a doomed relationship that plunges them both into despair when Cathy agrees to marry her rich neighbour Edgar Linton (David Robb) Tortured by his love the dark & sinister Heathcliff refuses to relinquish his emotional hold on Cathy & does everything in his power to destroy the lives of her & her family ...

Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold directs this raw & unique adaptation of Emily Bronte&s WUTHERING HEIGHTS Kaya Scodelario (SKINS) stars as Catherine with James Howson as her Heathcliff; marking the first time a black actor has portrayed the role Adopted into the wealthy Earnshaw family Heathcliff forms a powerful romantic bond with his new stepsister Cathy When he returns to the moors years later to find her married his realisation that he can never be with his one true soul mate has tragic consequences ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A thrilling new adaptation of Emily Brontë&s haunting classic which chronicles the passionate spiritual bond between Heathcliff an abandoned Gypsy boy adopted by the Earnshaw family of Wuthering Heights & the family&s daughter Cathy stars newcomer Charlotte Riley as Cathy & Tom Hardy as Heathcliff ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In a house haunted by memories the past is everywhere As darkness falls a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange grim house Wuthering Heights It is a place he will never forget There he will come to learn the story of Cathy how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband & the dangerous man she had loved since she was young How her choice led to betrayal & terrible revenge
- & continues to torment those in the present How love can transgress authority convention even death
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Introduction & Notes by John S Whitley University of Sussex Wuthering Heights is a wild passionate story of the intense & almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw & Heathcliff a foundling adopted by Catherine's father After Mr Earnshaw's death Heathcliff is bullied & humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley & wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated leaves Wuthering Heights only to return years later as a wealthy & polished man He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries The action of the story is chaotic & unremittingly violent but the accomplished handling of a complex structure the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting & the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature ...

Emily Bronte's only novel a work of tremendous & far-reaching influence the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor Lockwood the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights the home of his landlord There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff & Catherine Earnshaw; & how Catherine forced to choose between passionate tortured Heathcliff & gentle well-bred Edgar Linton surrendered to the expectations of her class As Heathcliff's bitterness & vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past In this edition a new preface by Lucasta Miller author of The Bronte Myth looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted from Charlotte Bronte onwards This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel as well as Emily Bronte's influences & background Emily Bronte (1818-48) along with her sisters Charlotte & Anne was one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel Wuthering Heights but was also a gifted & intense poet If you enjoyed Wuthering Heights you may like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre also available in Penguin Classics' Wuthering Heights is commonly thought of as romantic but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Bronte's characters subject one another to extremes of physical & psychological violence' Jeanette Winterson' As a first novel there is very little that can compare to it Even Shakespeare took over a decade to reach the clifftop extremities of King Lear' Sarah Waters ...