Emily Bronte’s only novel appeared to mixed reviews in 1847,a year before her death at the age of thirty. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliffand in the wildbleak Yorkshire Moors of its settingWuthering Heights creates a world of its ownconceived with a disregard for conventionan instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology that make it one of the greatest novels of passion ever written.