Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, 1847.
Before you read: Stormy family conflict and revenge. Best for teens.
On the Yorkshire moors, the orphan Heathcliff grows up with Catherine Earnshaw and loves her fiercely. When she marries someone else, he spends years taking revenge on two families. The story is told by a housekeeper to a visitor, so you piece the past together like a puzzle.
Public-domain text. First published in 1847; Emily Brontë died in 1848, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.