Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

416 pages. Paperback. Paperback. Perhaps the most beautiful, the most profoundly violent of love stories. For destiny, which, to all appearances, dictated that Emily Brontë, though she was beautiful, should be entirely ignorant of love, also dictated that she should have an anguished knowledge of passion: that knowledge which links love not only to clarity, but to violence and death. This is how Georges Bataille speaks of what he also calls one of the most beautiful books in literature of all time. Wuthering Heights first appeared in French under the title Les Hauts de Hurlevent (Delebecque translation). Wuthering Heights actually means the heights where the wind rages. This is the name of the isolated, cursed house at the heart of the story.