Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
English • Published 1847 • Public Domain • Free to stream
Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights is the only novel Emily Brontë ever wrote — and it is one of the most powerful in the English language. Set against the wild Yorkshire moors, it tells the story of Heathcliff, a foundling boy raised at the Earnshaw family's isolated farmhouse, and his all-consuming, destructive love for Catherine Earnshaw. Rejected by society and driven by revenge, Heathcliff becomes one of literature's most compelling anti-heroes. Dark, passionate, and atmospheric, Wuthering Heights is gothic fiction at its most elemental — a story of obsession and longing that echoes across generations.
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About the book: Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. The novel was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but Jane Eyre was published before the other two. The first American edition was published in April 1848 by Harper and Brothers of New York.
It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.
The character of Heathcliff may have been inspired by Branwell Brontë. Though contemporaneous reviews were polarised, Wuthering Heights has come to be considered one of the greatest novels written in English, and it has inspired an array of adaptations across several types of media.
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