Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER / 1982]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITON [1982] READER'S DIGEST / WORLD'S BEST READING

Gilded heavyweight hardcover w decorative frontispiece, leatherette spine and  full color illustrations by Skip Liepke. 

Book has a surface tear to leatherette spine.  Otherwise, excellent. 

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.