Wuthering Heights

It is not a love story. It is a ghost story. A revenge story. A story about two people who should never have met, and could never let each other go.

Emily Brontë's only novel is the most passionate and disturbing book of the nineteenth century, a tale of cruelty, obsession, and the wild moors that cannot contain either.

Lockwood, a fastidious gentleman from London, rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange. He visits his landlord, Heathcliff, at the remote, decaying farmhouse called Wuthering Heights. There, he encounters a ghost—a child's hand at the window, crying to be let in. The story unfolds in flashbacks: Heathcliff, a dark-skinned orphan brought to Wuthering Heights as a boy, falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the wild daughter of the house. They are soulmates, but she marries a richer, gentler man. Heathcliff disappears, returns wealthy, and spends the rest of his life destroying everyone who kept him from Catherine, including her husband, her brother, her children, and his own son. Catherine dies giving birth. Heathcliff digs up her grave. The novel ends with their ghosts walking the moors together.

This is Brontë at her most elemental and strange: a novel about the violence of love, the cruelty of class, and the refusal of some souls to stay buried. Wuthering Heights was dismissed as barbaric when it was published. Now it is considered one of the greatest novels in English.

• Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell

• One of the most adapted novels in history, with numerous film, television, and opera versions

• A foundational text of gothic romance and an inspiration for countless writers

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About the Author

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, one of the three famous Brontë sisters. Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, she was the fifth of six children. Her father, Patrick Brontë, was an Irish Anglican clergyman. The family moved to the remote village of Haworth, where the moors surrounding the parsonage would become the landscape of Wuthering Heights. Emily was known as the most reserved and mysterious of the sisters. She never married and rarely left home. Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, the same year as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. The novel was initially met with confusion and hostility; critics called it "brutal" and "coarse." Emily died of tuberculosis the following year, at the age of 30, never knowing that her novel would become a classic. Her only other surviving work is a collection of poems, now recognized for their fierce, visionary power. She is buried in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Haworth.