Wuthering Heights

[Wuthering Heights]
Year: 
1847
Type: 
Public: 
Publisher: 
Penguin Classics
Year of publication: 
2002
Pages: 
416
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

The Heathcliff Linton house called Wuthering Heights is one of violence and incident, with the story told by the neighbour Lockwood, a tenant at the Grange. It is the interlocking history of two families, the Lintons and the Earnshaws, told in flashback. On his father's death, Hindley Earnshaw bullies Heathcliff for not being his true brother. Heathcliff falls in love with the daughter, Catherine, who refuses his hand in marriage. He leaves, becomes rich, and on his return he finds Catherine married.

Sister of the great writers Charlotte and Anne, Emily Bronte was born in 1818, lived in Haworth, Yorkshire, and died in 1848 at the age of 30. This masterpiece of literature rests on its extraordinarily strong emotional force. Although the story is superficially morbid, she handles the complex structure brilliantly. In fact, it is a wonderfully imaginative insight into human nature.

Author: Cliff Cobb, United Kingdom
Update on: Apr 2023