Wuthering Heights and the surprising modernity of

and the surprising modernity of the original

She meets and befriends a local boy

is he a destroyer or a liberator

Richly atmospheric and psychologically compelling

the family's lavish overspending leads them into deep financial trouble

Wuthering Heights and the surprising modernity ofWhen Heathcliff, a poor young boy, is adopted into wealthy Catherine Earnshaw's family, he and Catherine form a bond that progresses from childhood friendship to teenage passion. Because of Heathcliff's lowly social status, however, Catherine decides she cannot marry him, and instead marries the gentleman Edgar Linton. This sets in motion a chain of events that ravages both the Linton and Earnshaw families with jealousy, revenge, and bitterness,