WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JOANNE HARRIS Amid a raging snowstorm on the wild Yorkshire moors, a man seeks shelter at an foreboding house called Wuthering Heights. The house''s secrets do not stay buried for long: Lockwood discovers the intense, passionate relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy that unfolded years before; the devastating betrayal; and a revenge that continues to haunt their descendants. Emily Bronte''s wild, defiant tale of love and vengeance remains one of the most haunting works of literature today. '' Wuthering Heights is commonly thought of as "romantic", but try rereading it without being astonished by the extremes of physical and psychological violence'' Jeannett Winterson

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Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was an English novelist and poet best known for her singular masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, and raised on the remote moors of Haworth, she was the fifth of six children in the Brontë family, whose literary talents would become legendary. Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis at just 30, leaving behind a brief but profoundly influential legacy.

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JOANNE HARRIS

'Feverish, hungry, astonishing' New York Times

'One of the greatest imaginative achievements of English culture' Guardian

Amid a raging snowstorm, Mr. Lockwood seeks shelter at Wuthering Heights, a house high on the barren Yorkshire moors. It's not long before the house's secrets reveal themselves: carved into the windowsill, the names Cathy and Heathcliff lead Lockwood to discover the intense, obsessive relationship that unfolded years before; the devastating betrayal; and a revenge that continues to haunt their descendants.

Shocking critics upon publication, Emily Brontë's wild, defiant tale of love and vengeance remains one of the most provocative, inventive works of literature today.

'Will there ever be a novel that burns with more passionate intensity?' Independent