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DescriptionWuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by an English author Emily Brontë, published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell a year before Brontë's death at the age of thirty. It was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Great before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. Charlotte edited the second edition of Wuthering Heights after Emily's death which was published in 1850.
The novel is now considered a classic of English Literature, but contemporaneous reviews were polarized. It was proved to be one of the nineteenth century's most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. The book was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religious and social values. Possibly, it is the most haunting and tormented love story ever written. It was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic Fiction.
Wuthering Heights is the name of the farmhouse where the story spread its wings. It is the tale of troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. Catherine dupes Heathcliff and marries Edger Linton for his higher social status. Through Catherine's betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Incorporating elements of many genres--from gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegory--and transcending them all, Wuthering Heights is a mystifying and powerful tour de force.
Adaptation
Wuthering Heights has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including an Opera, theatre, a hit song, and films too. The earliest known film adaptation of Wuthering Heights was filmed in England in 1920. It has inspired many aspiring authors and writers, the influence of the original novel can be seen on their works.
About the Author
Emily Jane Brontë was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly-knit, English provincial family. She was born in 1818 in a village of Yorkshire, to Brontë family in which everyone is a poet and writer, her father Patrick Brontë, her older sister Charlotte, her brother, Branwell, and a younger sister Anne. Emily's Wuthering Heights was her one and only novel which was treated at first as a lesser work by Charlotte, whose Jane Eyre had already been published to great acclaim. Emily Brontë's name did not emerge from behind her pseudonym of Ellis Bell until the second edition of her novel appeared in 1850.
Emily died at the age of thirty, on December 19, 1848, due to tuberculosis.
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Rating: 4.5/5
Author: Emily Brontë
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Publishing Date: September 15, 2019
Edition Language: English
Genre: Gothic Fiction, Classic Literature & Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Victorian Literary Criticism
ISBN-10: 184022794X
ISBN-13: 978-1840227949
Pages: 320 (Hardcover)
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