Set - Wuthering Heights: Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Wuthering Heights (set of 2 books)

Wuthering Heights

The novel-mystery that overturns all familiar notions of good and evil, love and hatred - "Wuthering Heights," one of the most unique works of world literature. Emily Brontë was forced to publish it at her own expense and under a male pseudonym. While some reviewers were amazed by the author's originality, others were horrified by what was happening on the moorlands of Yorkshire, where demonic passions of strong personalities, unwilling to make concessions to each other, rage, and the story of the fateful love of Heathcliff, the adopted son of the owner of a remote estate, for Catherine, the daughter of his master, unfolds. Society at that time was struck by the extraordinary emotional power of the novel and shocked by the audacity of its moral concepts. "Wuthering Heights" captivates contemporary readers with its beauty.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Love and crime are intricately intertwined in the fate of young Tess, a poor heiress of an ancient lineage, doomed to the role of a mistress - and ready to break this fate at the cost of her own life! Becoming a victim of a rich seducer, she protests against the brutal encroachment on human dignity and is forced to commit murder. "A deceived honest man can often be very cruel when the veil falls from his eyes."
A classic novel about passion, tragedy, and loss, which has become legendary in our time thanks to Roman Polanski's film.