Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights

One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love propriety and tragedy.  Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version 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. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine forced to choose between passionate tortured Heathcliff and gentle well-bred Edgar Linton surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeanc