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Wuthering Heights (1847) is a story of evil and revenge. It tells the story of Heathcliff and his revenge on the Earnshaws of Wuthering Heights and Lintons of Thrushcross Grange. Having been picked from the streets of Liverpool, Mr Earnshaw showed extraordinary love to Heathcliff to the despise of his children Catherine and Hindley. Later when Mr. Earnshaw died and Hindley became the Master of Wuthering Heights he set out to maltreat Heathcliff. Things spiralled out of control when Catherine Earnshaw chose to marry Edgar Linton of Thrushcross Grange rather than Heathcliff to whom she had become attached, almost sharing a soul, because he was poor and not a gentleman. Overhearing Catherine's decision to marry Edgar Linton, Heathcliff left home. He, however, came at an opportune when Hindley's wife, Frances Earnshaw, had died and the former was moving headlong into deterioration, caring about nothing, not even his son Hareton Earnshaw. This was when Heathcliff's revenge s...

Today's quotes, like the quotes for the past two or three weeks, comes exclusively from one book. In Wuthering Heights I never liked ANY character and I would tell of it when I feature the book. That book covered every vice I can think of: jealousy, greed, covetousness, murder and more.  Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Ellen Dean Page 67 A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Ellen Dean Page 73 Well I won't repeat my offer of a wife; it is as bad as offering Satan a lost soul. Your bliss lies, like his, in inflicting misery. Catherine Linton (or Earnshaw) Page 138 The mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering. Ellen Dean Page 112 Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies. Isabella Linton (Mrs. Heathcliff) Page 216 Treachery and violence are a just...