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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights (1846)

318 pages 4.1/5 Goodreads

Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

Author: Emily Brontë

ISBN: 9781405073202

Content Warnings

Identity & Discrimination

Racial slurs / racism (depicted)

Mental Health & Emotional

Grief / bereavement (major focus)

Other

Forced marriage Gaslighting / emotional manipulation Kidnapping / abduction Wrongful imprisonment

Substance Use

Alcohol abuse (depicted)

Violence & Physical Harm

Animal cruelty / animal death Child abuse / harm to children Domestic violence / intimate partner abuse Self-harm / suicide (depicted)
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