Casper David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (detail) , 1818
The Sub Rosa January 2026 selection is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The meeting will be held at Book Beat on Saturday, January 31st at 6:30 PM. Books are in stock now and are discounted 15%. Thank you for your suport!
In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere.
As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Catherine and Heathcliff: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.
“It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.”
—Virginia Woolf
Emily Brontë (1818-48) along with her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, is one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century. She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel but was also a gifted and intense poet.
Read Emily Bronte’s poem No Coward’s Soul Is Mine.
“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I’m going to tell it – but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights