num_pages: 415
description: Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. "Only Emily Brontë," V. S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, "exposes her imagination to the dark spirit." And Virginia Woolf wrote, "It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with a few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar."
language: English
title: Wuthering Heights
titlecomplete: Wuthering Heights
characters: Mr. Lockwood, Heathcliff, Hareton Earnshaw, Ellen (Nelly) Dean, Linton Heathcliff, Edgar Linton, Catherine Linton, Hindley Earnshaw, Catherine Earnshaw, Isabella Linton
genres: Fiction, Historical, Gothic, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1729437
places: England, Yorkshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Audible’s Narrator of the Year Award
publisher: Modern Library (Random House)