Emily Bront's only novel endures as a tremendously influential work. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, set in the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek refuge one night in Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the stormy events that took place years before. What unfolds is the story of the intense love between the gypsy woman who founded Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between the passionate and tortured Heathcliff and the gentle and well-mannered Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and revenge for his betrayal wash over the next generation, his innocent heirs must fight to escape the legacy of the past.