Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Title page of the first edition, 1847
Author	Emily Brontë
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Tragedy, gothic
Published	December 1847
Publisher	Thomas Cautley Newby
ISBN	0-486-29256-8
OCLC	71126926
Dewey Decimal	823.8
LC Class	PR4172 .W7 2007
Text	Wuthering Heights at Wikisource

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 families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system.^[1][2]

Wuthering Heights 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 they were published later. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850.^[3] It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the same name.