“Glencoe Literature” offers a collection of hardcover books that allows you to extend the study of literature to your choice of full-length novels and plays. Each “Glencoe Literature Library” book consists of a complete novel or play accompanied by several related readings, such as short stories, poems, essays, or informational articles.
“Wuthering Heights” is one of the most strikingly original novels ever written. Its elements are simple to relate: the passionate relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and the dark, brooding Heathcliff, the destructive effects of their love, and the wild backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, based on the landscape around Emily Brontë’s native Haworth.
Yet the novel is much more complex than this.
It has an intricate structure in which events are recounted to an external narrator, a traveller called Lockwood, by the housekeeper Nelly Dean, whose down-to-earth voice throws the intensity of Catherine and Heathcliff’s story into sharp relief
Names are repeated down the generations, relationships are interwoven and devices such as Catherine’s diary give us further insights into the characters.
