Wuthering Heights | Wordsworth Empress Collection

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

This edition includes a new afterword by Dr Sally Minogue.

Introducing the Empress Collection – a brand-new three-title series that unites the enduring power of gothic classics with the allure of contemporary dark romance. Featuring Jane Eyre, Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights, the Empress Collection is designed to bridge the gap between today’s romantic gothic aesthetic and the original novels that defined the genre. With a focus on bold storytelling, emotional intensity and feminine experience, this collection celebrates gothic fiction written by women, for women.