Wuthering Heights
1847 novel by Emily Brontë
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Summary
Wuthering Heights is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.0035% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74,841 views/month, #1 of 28,446).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: Emily Brontë[3]
- Genre: gothic fiction[4], Victorian literature[5], romantic fiction[6], cautionary tale[7]
- Commons category: Wuthering Heights[8]
- Language of work or name: British English[9]
- Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[10]
- Publication date: 1847[11]
- Characters: Hareton Earnshaw[12], Heathcliff[13], Edgar Linton[14], Catherine Linton[15], Lockwood[16], Nelly Dean[17], Hindley Earnshaw[18], Isabella Linton[19], Linton Heathcliff[20], Catherine Earnshaw[21]
- Has edition or translation: Wuthering Heights[22], Les Hauts de Hurlevent[23], Un amant[24], Cumbres borrascosas[25], Wuthering Heights : ELTeC edition[26]
- Narrative location: Yorkshire[27]
- Topic's main category: Category:Wuthering Heights[28]
- Main subject: Odio[29]
- Inspired by: Top Withens[30]
- Work available at URL: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights[31]
- Described by source: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing[32]
- Title: Wuthering Heights[33]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://literature.stackexchange.com/tags/wuthering-heights[34]
- Has characteristic: debut novel[35]
- Different from: Üvöltő szelek[36]
- First line: 1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.[37]
- Set in period: 1770s[38], 1780s[39], 1790s[40], 1800s[41]
- Last line: I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.[42]
- Derivative work: Hurlevent[43], Wuthering Heights[44], Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights[45]
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Why It Matters
Wuthering Heights has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]