A sumptuous, double foiled, deluxe edition combining Emily Bronte's tale of tortured romance, Wuthering Heights, with her sister Charlotte's neglected masterpiece, a passionate narrative of repressed and unrequited love. Although Wuthering Heights is the more famous, Villette rewards repeated readings, offered here in the new luxurious Romantic Gothic series.

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is the quintessential romantic novel, a love story regarded as one of the greatest in the English language. Her sister Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a worthy companion though, a restless tale of romantic denial that grips the reader's attention in this beautiful, double foiled, deluxe edition.

The tale of Heathcliff's and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte claiming Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers. The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both thems and many around them. Now considered a classic of English literature, the novel's innovative structure, which has been likened to a series of Matryoshka dolls, met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared.