Wuthering Heights

About this book

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront is Wuthering Heights. Under the alias Ellis Bell, it was initially published in 1847. Her sister Charlotte edited a posthumous second edition. The title of the book refers to the Yorkshire manor on the moors where the action takes place (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The story describes Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw's all-consuming and passionate—yet thwarted—love and how this unrequited love ultimately destroys them and those close to them.