Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

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Nelson Doubleday • 1850 • 290 pages • Hardcover

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About the Author

Emily Brontë

1818-1848 · 1 work

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her novel [Wuthering Heights][1], a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. She published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell. ([Source][2].) [1]: http://upstream.openlibrary.org/works/OL10427528W/Wuthering_Heights [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bronte

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Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym 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 Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.