Wuthering Heights
A love so absolute it destroys everything around it. The moors have never been colder or more alive.
Wild and Dark
Emily Bronte's sole 1847 novel is narrated at a remove, with housekeeper Nelly Dean recounting decades of violence and obsession surrounding Heathcliff, a foundling brought to the Yorkshire moors who grows into a brooding, vengeful man consumed by his love for Catherine Earnshaw. When society separates them, both are warped by it. The novel tears at every romantic and domestic convention of its era with extraordinary force.
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
"Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte published Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell. Critics of the time were baffled and unsettled by its violence and moral ambiguity. Her identity was only revealed after her death.
The novel was initially considered too dark and coarse but has since been reassessed as one of the greatest English novels ever written. Kate Bush's 1978 debut single of the same name reached number one in the UK.