The definitive text of this powerfully influential tale of love, family, prejudice, and jealousy, Emily Brontë's unique masterpiece and a significant work of nineteenth-century literature, "Wuthering Heights," tells the story of two families bound and torn apart by both love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and strong-willed young woman torn between her gentle husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and bitter man who has loved her since childhood. The intensity of their bond creates a whirlwind of cruelty and violence that will cost one of them their life and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Emily Brontë's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion. Vintage Classics Bronte Series - beautiful editions, three iconic stories, three extraordinary women.