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Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847, a storm of a book set on the bleak Yorkshire moors. Its tale of Heathcliff and Catherine is less a love story than a study of passion turned destructive, obsessive, cruel, and unbound by death. Shocking to its first readers, it is now recognized as one of the great novels in English.
About the author — Emily Brontë
Emily Bronte (1818 to 1848) was an English novelist and poet, the most private of the three Bronte sisters, who died at thirty. Her single novel, fierce and strange, has outlived the conventions that once made critics recoil from it.
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What is Wuthering Heights about?
The fierce, destructive bond between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors, and how their thwarted passion poisons two families across a generation. It is a story of love as obsession and revenge.
Why is Wuthering Heights so famous?
For its raw emotional power and its refusal of easy morality. Strange and stormy where Victorian fiction was decorous, it has come to be seen as a singular masterpiece.
What is the most famous line from Wuthering Heights?
Catherine's declaration that she is Heathcliff, the line that captures the novel's vision of love as total, frightening identification.