Why is it so good

>>9617109
Because it's darkly romantic. It is relentless and unsympathetic to its characters. The narrative is caustic in its treatment of the love triangle, neither siding with one, nor giving preference to the other, rather letting it fall on Catherine to decide which is more desirable. Because Catherine does have a choice: I don't mean an actual choice, but a moral choice to either live with the hand fate has dealt her, or rebel against it, in her heart. Because we know from the beginning Heathcliff is doomed and he struggles on, against the current, like Satan and Ahab. Brontë's vision is uncompromising in its beauty and cruelty, and she makes us believe, like her characters, that their lives are anything but uncontrollable.

>>9617109
The girl on that cover is hot.

I have to say the book itself is quite a subversion of romantic literature from the same time. Elizabeth Gaskell comes to mind often with her near-perfect characters. And when I read this in school all the women in class seemed to hate it so I automatically took a liking to it