Wuthering Heights: A Quick Read edition

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 11 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 27 minutes "Wuthering Heights" is a novel influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It explores themes of mental and physical cruelty, domestic abuse, and challenges to Victorian morality and the class system. The plot follows Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, as he visits his landlord, Heathcliff, at Wuthering Heights. Catherine, Heathcliff's love interest, falls ill and dies after giving birth to a daughter. Heathcliff becomes haunted by her ghost and grows increasingly wild. The story ends with Lockwood leaving the moors and finding peace at the graves of Catherine, Edgar, and Heathcliff. The novel features a complex family tree and various characters, including Heathcliff, Catherine, Hindley, and Hareton. "Wuthering Heights" received mixed reviews upon its publication, but has since been recognized as a powerful and imaginative work. It is considered a love story by some, while others view it as an exploration of evil and abuse. The novel has been adapted into films, TV shows, operas, and a musical.