The novel is set against the dark, isolated backdrop of the Yorkshire moors and is framed as a tale told by the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to a new tenant named Mr. Lockwood. The story begins years earlier when Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of the remote estate Wuthering Heights, travels to Liverpool and returns home with a starving, dark-haired homeless orphan boy whom he names Heathcliff. Mr. Earn…
Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë’s only novel, originally published under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell. Today, it is considered a masterwork of English literature and a towering classic of Gothic and psychological fiction. Set against the bleak, stormy Yorkshire moors, the novel breaks away from traditional Victorian polite society to explore all-consuming passion, destructive obsession, s…