Wuthering Heights
Cracked Pepper Classic Gothic Novels
Original 1847 Text Annotated
The moors do not forgive. Neither does Heathcliff.
This is the original Wuthering Heights as written in 1847 by Emily Brontë.
This text is differentiated by:
- A detailed afterword describing gothic literature and Wuthering Heights' place within it.
- A description of the author's life and the impact that Wuthering Heights had on future literature and society.
- Text detailing the differences between the 1850 and 1847 editions.
Wuthering Heights is not a love story. It's an obsession — wild, consuming, and catastrophic — set against the savage beauty of the English moors, where the wind never quite stops howling and the past refuses to stay buried.
When orphan Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights, he and Catherine Earnshaw forge a bond that feels less like affection and more like fate. But society has rules. Catherine has ambitions. And Heathcliff has a long, merciless memory.
Spanning two generations, Emily Brontë's 1847 masterpiece is darker than you remember, stranger than you've been told, and more brutally honest about love, class, and cruelty than almost anything written since. This is the gothic romance that invented the brooding hero — and then dared to ask whether he deserved one.
Some loves don't save you. Some loves ruin everything.
Read the classic 1847 text, reformatted for ease of reading, with a Gothic cover to match.