Wuthering Heights

Name: Wuthering Heights
Rating: 4.6 (5006 reviews)

by Emily Brontë

First published 1847

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Yorkshire moors, 1801. The reserved tenant Mr Lockwood arrives at Thrushcross Grange and is drawn into the hostile household at nearby Wuthering Heights. His housekeeper, Nelly Dean, recounts how Mr Earnshaw brought the orphan Heathcliff into his family, binding him to Catherine Earnshaw and provoking Hindley’s resentment. Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar Linton rather than Heathcliff turns love and class ambition into a cycle of abandonment, coercion and revenge.

Moving between the Earnshaws and Lintons across two generations, the novel examines property, inheritance, domestic violence and the damage adults pass to their children. The principal action runs from the early 1770s to 1802 within late Georgian rural Yorkshire. Its ghosts and visions remain deliberately ambiguous, while the developing relationship between Cathy Linton and Hareton Earnshaw offers the possibility that education and mutual care can end Heathcliff’s control.