Wuthering Heights (Annotated)

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by Emily Bront�. Written between December 1845 to July 1846, it was initially rejected for publication until first being published in December 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte.The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective; wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.Now considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative’s stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. Although Charlotte Bront�’s Jane Eyre was generally considered the best of the Bront� sisters’ works during most of the nineteenth century, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that it was a superior achievementIncludes a biography of the Author.