Wuthering Heights Summary
Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights Summary

First published m 1847, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern times. Early critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the author's death. Sympathetically...

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