Classics Retold 4: Wuthering Heights

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Emily Bronte was born in 1818, the daughter of a curate and sister to fellow novelists Charlotte and Anne. She was the most enigmatic of the three famous siblings but found life away from the Haworth parsonage that they called home extremely hard. After some time as a teacher at a school near Halifax, homesickness drew her back to the moors and the life of a reclusive author. It was there, in 1848, that she died of tuberculosis just months after her brother Branwell. Hardly any of her papers survive and her reputation is based on a few surviving poems and one novel, Wuthering Heights.

High on the windswept Yorkshire moors, an old farmhouse hides the secrets of a doomed love story. What lies beneath the mystery of Wuthering Heights, and why is Heathcliff, its reclusive owner, intent on cruelty and revenge? Part of the Usborne Young Reading series, this retelling of the classic love story is ideal for newly independent readers. A gripping story of love and revenge, set in the dramatic backdrop of the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century. Heathcliff is brought up by the Earnshaw family, but bullied and humiliated by Catherine Earnshaws brother. He leaves, wrongly believing his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, and returns years later, a wealthy man, to exact revenge. Illustrations:Full colour throughout

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