Wuthering Heights

:For the song by Kate Bush please see Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. First published in 1847, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, the name comes from the house which is one of the three main settings in the book. A posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte.

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Emily Brontë - Novel - 1847 - Pseudonym - Charlotte

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Though now taken to be a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights?s initial reception was lukewarm at best. Its innovative structure, which has been likened to a series of Matryoshka dolls, puzzled critics when it first appeared. Some contemporaneous critics even believed it to be an earlier, less mature work from Charlotte Brontë (who had published Jane Eyre that same year under the pseudonym Currer Bell). Subsequent critics revised this view, and most agreed that Wuthering Heights?s originality and achievement exceeded her sisters Charlotte and Anne's works.

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English literature - Matryoshka doll - Jane Eyre - Anne

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Wuthering Heights has given rise to many adaptations, including several films, radio and television dramatisations, and a musical, as well as a hit song by Kate Bush.

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Film - Radio - Television - Musical - Kate Bush

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