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Wuthering Heights
Houghton Lowell 1238.5 (A) - Wuthering Heights, 1847.jpg
Title page of the first edition
Author Emily Brontë
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Novel
Publisher Thomas Cautley Newby
Publication date
 1847
Media type Print

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym (false name) "Ellis Bell". After her death, a second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The story is about the love of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, foster siblings in Yorkshire. It is a classic of English literature, and has been made into movies many times.

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  • The Climb to Top Withens. - geograph.org.uk - 393405

    The climb to Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws' home in Wuthering Heights

  • TopWithensPlaque

    Brontë Society plaque at Top Withens

  • Wuthering Heights family tree

    Family tree

  • High Sunderland Hall 1818

    High Sunderland Hall in 1818, shortly before Emily Brontë saw the building.

  • Laurence Olivier Merle Oberon Wuthering Heights

    Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights

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