Wuthering Heights / Bront?, Emily

Heathcliff and Cathy's tortured love affair ends when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's retaliation concludes the tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire Moors.

Forced by a storm to spend the night at Wuthering Heights, the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of passion, greed, and destructive love on the Yorkshire moors.

An adaptation of Bronte?'s novel set in nineteenth-century Yorkshire, in which the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation.

Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.

Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only novel, published in 1847. It had poor sales and was criticized for its haunting depiction of the uncontrolled passion between Cathy and Heathcliff. Victorian readers were not amused. Today it is perhaps recognized as the most sophisticated novel of the Gothic genre. The story of the mysterious gypsy boy, Heathcliff, adopted by the Earnshaw family, and his stepsister, Cathy, remains popular today.