Emily Brontë

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 Raised together on the Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Catherine become lovers and soul mates so utterly inseparable that their destiny seems inevitable. But when Catherine's desire for social status results in her marriage to Heathcliff's...

Wuthering Heights is a multigenerational gothic romance exploring the intense, destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the orphan Heathcliff on the Yorkshire moors in England.

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling...

Wuthering Heights is the sole novel of Emily Brontë, who died a year after its publication at the age of 30. A tale of exceptional emotional and imaginative force, it is an arresting vision of metaphysical passion, in which nature and society, heaven and hell, and dynamic and passive forces are...

When it was first published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was considered highly controversial for its blunt portrayal of domestic abuse, alcoholism, and the dismissal of Christian values by some of its characters. Today, this gothic novel is considered one of the greatest in English literature...

Featured title in the 2018 PBS Great American Reads Emily Bronte’s time-tested story of love turned on itself and the violence and misery that result from thwarted passion. A novel of immense power, Wuthering Heights is filled with the raw beauty of the English moors and a deep compassion for...