✍︎ About the Author · Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet born in 1818. She grew up in Yorkshire with her literary siblings Charlotte and Anne Brontë, and much of her imaginative world was shaped by the dramatic landscape surrounding the family home. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Although its intensity surprised many early readers, it later became recognised as a masterpiece of English literature. Brontë died in 1848 at the age of thirty.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights is a dark and passionate story of love, obsession and revenge set against the windswept Yorkshire moors. At its centre is the powerful bond between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an outsider brought into the Earnshaw household as a child. Their relationship is shaped by pride, social ambition and emotional intensity, and its consequences extend across two generations. As resentment and desire transform into cruelty and vengeance, the isolated houses of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange become stages for a deeply troubled family history. Emily Brontë’s only novel is famous for its dramatic atmosphere, complex characters and refusal to offer a simple romantic ideal. Strange, fierce and unforgettable, Wuthering Heights remains one of the most distinctive novels in English literature.
- Genre
- Gothic Fiction / Classic Romance / Literary Fiction
- Series
- Nu Voice Paperback Classics
- Binding
- Paperback
- Pages
- 348
- ISBN
- 978-81-904006-1-9
- Combo eligible
- Yes
✍︎ About the Author · Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet born in 1818. She grew up in Yorkshire with her literary siblings Charlotte and Anne Brontë, and much of her imaginative world was shaped by the dramatic landscape surrounding the family home. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Although its intensity surprised many early readers, it later became recognised as a masterpiece of English literature. Brontë died in 1848 at the age of thirty.