{"product_id":"wuthering-heights-popular-penguins","title":"Wuthering Heights (Popular Penguins)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere as darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house wuthering heights it is a place he will never forget there he will come to learn the story of cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young how her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present about the author: emily bronte, the sister of charlotte, shared the same isolated childhood on the yorkshire moors emily, however, seems to have been much more affected by the eerie desolation of the moors than was charlotte her one novel, wuthering heights (1847), draws much of its power from its setting in that desolate landscape emilys work is also marked by a passionate intensity that is sometimes overpowering according to english poet and critic matthew arnold, for passion, vehemence, and grief she had no equal since byron this passion is evident in the poetry she contributed to the collection (poems by currer, ellis and acton bell) published by the bronte sisters in 1846 under male pseudonyms in response to the prejudices of the time her passion reached far force, however, in her novel, wuthering heights brontes novel defies easy classification it is certainly a story of love, but just as certainly it is not a love story it is a psychological novel, but is so filled with hints of the supernatural and mystical that the reader is unsure of how much control the characters have over their own actions it may seem to be a study of right and wrong, but is actually a study of good and evil above all, it is a novel of power and fierce intensity that has gripped readers for more than 100 years\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41293954777152,"sku":"9780141045207","price":16.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/0876\/8576\/files\/9780141045207.jpg?v=1783138929","url":"https:\/\/thepageandprose.co.nz\/products\/wuthering-heights-popular-penguins","provider":"The Page and Prose Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}