Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by means of Emily Brontë, to start with posted below her pen call "Ellis Bell". It issues households of the landed gentry residing on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. The novel changed into motivated through Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

Wuthering Heights is now broadly taken into consideration to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, however contemporaneous evaluations had been polarised. It became arguable for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, inclusive of home abuse, and for its demanding situations to Victorian morality and religious and societal values.

Wuthering Heights turned into regular with the aid of publisher Thomas Newby in conjunction with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey earlier than the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, however they were posted later. After Emily's loss of life, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was posted in 1850. It has stimulated an array of diversifications across numerous media, consisting of English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the equal call.

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