Wuthering Heights

THE ORIGINAL, UNABRIDGED 1847 EDITION

Wuthering Heights is a storm-lashed tale of obsessive love and corrosive revenge set on the Yorkshire moors, where the orphan Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw’s fierce bond warps two generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families, mingling Gothic passion, haunting superstition, and a stark vision of emotional cruelty. The novel probes how class, inheritance, and “proper” gentility shape desire, marriage choices, and who is treated as fully human. Since its mixed early reception, Wuthering Heights has grown into a central work of the literary canon, now celebrated for its radical narrative structure, psychological depth, and pioneering exploration of passion, gender, and class in the Victorian novel.

This Warbler Classics edition faithfully reproduces the original 1847 edition and includes the three prefaces written by Charlotte Brontë for the 1850 edition in which she made significant revisions. Also includes an extensive biographical timeline.

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, the reclusive middle Brontë sister and author of her sole novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a fiercely original work set on the Yorkshire moors that transformed romantic fiction with its bleak intensity and psychological power.

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English novelist, poet, and eldest surviving Brontë sister, best known for the novel Jane Eyre, which helped redefine the possibilities of Victorian fiction.

“Wuthering Heights releases extraordinary new energies in the novel, renews its potential, and almost reinvents the genre. The scope and drift of its imagination, its passionate exploration of a fatal yet regenerative love affair, and its brilliant manipulation of time and space put it in a league of its own.” 
—Robert McCrum, The Guardian