Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

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Published Dec 31, 2002

416 pages

Average rating: 7.05

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Readers say *Wuthering Heights* is a dark, passionate classic with complex, deeply flawed characters and a haunting atmosphere. Reviewers agree the st...

Mkjamal

Oct 31, 2025

A timeless classic of passion trauma and heartbreak

jpubs

Feb 02, 2025

6/10 stars

Wow, what a classic indeed.
Things I wish I'd known before reading:
- this is not a romance, it's a damn tragedy
- the narrator is some random dude that has nothing to do with anything
- it frequently switches timeframes (sometimes without warning) and can turn from a retelling to a retelling of a retelling so that gets a bit confusing trying to parse out who's point of view you are supposedly hearing from
- heathcliff and Catherine's "love story" only accounts for about half of the book
- it's super depressing and you pretty much hate all the characters

Sandiejo20

Jun 23, 2020

7/10 stars

Language was tough to follow. POV changed often and was hard to follow. Lengthy, but worth it.

Madeline M Murdock

Dec 01, 2025

I absolutely loved this book. I loved how perfectly Bronte captures true human nature: we all have good and evil mixed, not just one or the other. I also love how Bronte writes; it is almost magical how she writes. For example: "This is nothing," cried she; "I was only going to say that Heaven did not seem to be my home; and the angles were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in Heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire," (page 96). Bronte is comparing Heathcliff to hell and Linton to Heaven. I love that comparison because it is so true. Catherine is debating on who she should be and who she is. I cannot wait to watch the movie, though nothing can be as good as the book.

Nayri

Oct 07, 2025

10/10 stars

SUCH bad book hangover from this one AHH!

I don’t know where to start. Definitely an amazing book. Will write more once I have recovered from the hangover.

Update: it’s been 4 days since I finished this. Still somehow so much book hangover.
Here’s what I do know:
- it’s a masterpiece
- it’s about love but it’s twisted and almost haunted
- I need to read it like a dozen more times
I suppose that in the end, love will always prevail.