Books I love: Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a Gothic novel first published under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell in 1847. Emily Bronte wrote it in 1846 and it was controversial initially for the depiction of mental and physical cruelty.

Wuthering Heights is a dark love story set on the Yorkshire moors, England. The doomed love and unresolved passion by protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw (spoiler alert!) eventually destroy them and many around them.

This novel, a classic of English literature, has many spin-offs in the form of movies, plays, a musical (Cliff Richard played Heathcliff in 1996, and you can watch it on YouTube), even a song by Kate Bush. 

"Dreams are ... illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you" - Marsha Norman
Ex Libris CNB 0263, 0306

My copy of Wuthering Heights (CNB 2011)

Cliff Richard as Heathcliff in the musical (CNB from YouTube)