Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. There is a debate on whether this is the ultimate love story or the ultimate story of revenge. Through Catherine’s betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Wuthering Heights is romantic, impassioned, and wild, but it is also a dark journey in the human soul. Many critics thought that Jane Eyre was Bronte’s sister's best work but many subsequent critics argued that Wuthering Heights’s originality and achievement made it superior. This story is considered a classic in English literature.
