Wuthering Heights (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time – #7]

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, “Wuthering Heights” was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. “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…