Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Cole and Robert Dodd. Two houses on the Yorkshire moors, three generations, and an attachment neither Heathcliff nor Catherine would consent to call love. Brontë tells it at two removes, through a housekeeper and a tenant who saw what they could not stop, so that the reader must assemble the cruelty from other people's excuses. Paintings of storm-lashed heath, candlelit farmhouse and moorland in every season; the Gilded Library ornament is windswept heather, bare thorn and a casement latch.
Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Cole and Robert Dodd. Two houses on the Yorkshire moors, three generations, and an attachment neither Heathcliff nor Catherine would consent to call love. Brontë tells it at two removes, through a housekeeper and a t...