novel (1847) by Emily Brontë. The orphan Heathcliff is loved by Catherine, the
daughter of his adopted father, Mr Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights. Ill-treated after
Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff’s extremes of love and hate are played out in the
relationship between himself, the Earnshaws, and the Lintons of Thrushcross Grange
and their stories. There is an ultimate reconciliation of conflicts when the daughter
of the dead Catherine marries the son of Heathcliff and Isabella Linton. The novel’s
high reputation is based on its outstanding originality and power. It was Emily
Brontë’s only novel.