Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of the Wuthering Heights estate, returns home one day with a homeless boy, Heathcliff, asking his own children to treat him as a brother. Heathcliff and Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine, seem destined for one another; yet the love that grows between them proves profoundly destructive. As he comes of age, Heathcliff never feels fully accepted, and as an adult he becomes driven by a desire for revenge – one that shapes not only his own fate but that of the generations to follow. The novel is permeated throughout by the dark, brooding atmosphere of the Yorkshire moors.
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