"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

Hitchin Book Club invites you to join us for some light hearted discussion. This event is a great introduction to the book club (especially if you have never been to a book club before). We always welcome new members of any level of reading experience.

Book Name: Wuthering Heights
Book Author: Emily Brontë
Genre: Gothic Tragedy
Published: 1847
Word Count: 108k
Read Time Estimate: 7h12m
Date: Tuesday January 20th November 2025
Start Time: 19:30pm
End Time: approx 21:30pm
Location: The Albert Inn, 50 Walsworth Rd, Hitchin SG4 9SU - sitting at one of the tables inside. Any updates to location I will post in comments on the day.

Structure:
- Brief introduction and what you thought about the book
- Discussions based on a set of pre-prepared questions as prompts
- 5 to 10 minute break half-way through, option to join whatsapp group
- Opportunity to ask any questions to the group
- Closing thoughts and provide a rating for book out of 10
- Vote for the next book (you may nominate a book for the next event)
- Book club formally ends - feel free to leave or stick around for general conversations

About book (from Goodreads):

Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.