
Gothic fiction · 1847
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1847 novel by Emily Brontë
- 1847
- Gothic fiction
- Victorian literature
- romantic fiction
- cautionary tale
Summary
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. 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.
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