About the Book: Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontes only novel, a work of tremendous and 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 and Catherine
Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured
Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered