Wuthering Heights

In this classic novel, written in the epistolary style popular in the 19th century, the tragic love story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw plays out against the backdrop of a gloomy manor called Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte s masterpiece has gone on to become required reading among most high school students, yet the passionate individuals who populate Bronte s landscape and charge the book s atmosphere with their brooding, intense personalities personalities which are commonplace in fiction now but repulsed readers and critics alike in Victorian times have ensured the novel s popularity up to the present day on its own merits.