Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights
| Author | Emily Brontë |
|---|---|
| Published | 1847 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw on the Yorkshire moors, told at two removes so no one telling it has a clean view — routinely shelved as a romance, and closer to a study of what a fixed obsession does to the generation that inherits it. |
Wuthering Heights
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, the Substack writer’s 468-title curriculum (December 2025), in the Ages 13–99+ band under Fiction.
About this edition
The story reaches the reader as a tenant recording a housekeeper’s recollection. Reviewers in 1847 found it brutal and several said so plainly; Charlotte Brontë felt obliged to write a defence of her sister’s book for the 1850 edition. Emily Brontë (1818–1848) published one novel and died of tuberculosis the year after it appeared, at 30.
Connections
- Emily Brontë — the author.
- Charlotte Brontë — her sister, who wrote the preface defending the book.
- Jane Eyre — published the same year, also on this list.
- Literature
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.