Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte Annotated Classic Edition

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the houseWuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only finished novel, it was written between October 1845 and June 1846. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights and arranged for the edited version to be second edition in 1850. The novel explores the effects of envy, nostalgia, pessimism and resentment. Wuthering Heights contains elements of gothic fiction.