Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights is the only novel of the 19th century English writer and poetess Emily Bronte and her most famous work. An exemplary plot, innovative use of several narrators, attention to the details of rural life, combined with a romantic interpretation of natural phenomena, vivid imagery and the processing of the conventions of a Gothic novel make Wuthering Heights a benchmark of late Romanticism and a classic work of early Victorian literature. directors, including such major directors as Luis Bunuel and Jacques Rivette. The classic film is considered in 1939 with Laurence Olivier in the role of Heathcliff. The 1992 version with Juliette Binoche and Rafe Fiennes is also very well known. In the 2011 British film Heathcliff, a black actor plays. Usually, script writers use only part of the story to adapt.

In 1978, young British singer Kate Bush recorded the song Wuthering Heights, based on the plot of the novel Wuthering Heights. The song reached the top of the charts in the UK and Australia. Impressed by the reading of the novel Jim Steinman wrote for Mit Loaf the ballad It's It's All Coming Back to Me Now; Celine Dion Falling Into You (1996) begins with this track.

The first edition of the novel was sold in 2007 at an auction for 114 thousand pounds sterling (more than 235 thousand US dollars).

Sales of the book increased many times in early 2009, after it became known that some of its motifs were used in the novels by Stephenie Meyer from the Twilight series. In the summer of the same year, sales jumped in the UK after the publishing house Harper Collins released a new edition in a design similar to the books of the Twilight series, with the inscription “Favorite Book of Bella and Edward” on the cover. In one of the books, Bella even directly quotes the main character Catherine, who spoke about Heathcliff. Currently, you can purchase several sequels and offshoots of the novel's plot line for the authorship of modern writers.

Somerset Maugham included Wuthering Heights in his collection “Ten novels and their authors”. According to a rating compiled by polls from UKTV channel UK Drama, Wuthering Heights is the main romantic book of all time. In the list of “200 best books on the BBC version” (2003), the novel ranked 12th.