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should have a page on this major work!
'''Wuthering Heights''' is a novel written by [[Emily Brontë]], first published in 1848. It recounts the tumultuous lives of two or three generations of the occupants of the titular house, Wuthering Heights, and neighbouring Thrushcross Grange, both situated on the [[moor]]s of [[Yorkshire]] in the north of [[England]].
Central to the story is the love between Heathcliff, an adopted [[gypsy]] boy, and his foster sister Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine's marriage to a richer, more respectable man than her true love drives Heathcliff into villainous madness, resulting in him inflicting years of psychological and physical abuse his own family and those connected with him; Heathcliff himself was subject to comparable abuse as a boy by his older foster brother Hindley. The wild, stark, forbidding, tempestuous moors make an apt setting for this bleak subject matter, and Brontë is almost cinematic ''avant la letre'' in her use of the former as a backdrop to the latter.
Several film versions of Wuthering Heights have been made, and also a modestly successful stage musical starring, somewhat surprisingly, [[Cliff Richard]] as Heathcliff. The singer [[Kate Bush]] also took inspiration from the novel for her first hit single, also called ''Wuthering Heights''.
[[category:Novels]]
Central to the story is the love between Heathcliff, an adopted [[gypsy]] boy, and his foster sister Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine's marriage to a richer, more respectable man than her true love drives Heathcliff into villainous madness, resulting in him inflicting years of psychological and physical abuse his own family and those connected with him; Heathcliff himself was subject to comparable abuse as a boy by his older foster brother Hindley. The wild, stark, forbidding, tempestuous moors make an apt setting for this bleak subject matter, and Brontë is almost cinematic ''avant la letre'' in her use of the former as a backdrop to the latter.
Several film versions of Wuthering Heights have been made, and also a modestly successful stage musical starring, somewhat surprisingly, [[Cliff Richard]] as Heathcliff. The singer [[Kate Bush]] also took inspiration from the novel for her first hit single, also called ''Wuthering Heights''.
[[category:Novels]]