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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Published1846
Pages364
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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.

Literary origin

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  • United Kingdom

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Subjects

  • form:novel
  • genre:tragedy
  • genre:gothic
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Children's fiction
  • Classic fiction
  • Classic Literature
  • Country homes
  • Country life
  • Cousins

People

  • Catherine Earnshaw
  • Cathy Linton
  • Edgar Linton
  • Heathcliff
  • Hindley Earnshaw
  • Isabella Linton
  • Joseph
  • Linton Heathcliff
  • Mr Lockwood
  • Nelly Dean

Times & places

  • 1801
  • 19th Century
  • Siglo XIX
  • Jin dai
  • Jindai
  • 19e siècle
  • 1950-
  • Yingguo
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