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After a moment he smiled a teasing smile I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality
I think that may be the point I disagreed Their love is their only redeeming quality
Eclipse Stephenie Meyer

Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw

Published in 1847 the year before Emily Brontes death at the age of thirty Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth centurys most popular yet disturbing masterpieces The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactors daughter Catherine Through Catherines betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths Incorporating elements of many genresfrom gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegoryand transcending them all Wuthering Heights is a mystifying and powerful tour de force

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The sole novel of Emily Bront who died a year after its publication at the age of thirty Wuthering Heights is one of the most original classics in the canon of English literature Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors it is the tale of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates and whose tempestuous natures and obsessive love eventually destroy them and those around them