Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. 'Only Emily Brontë,' V.S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, 'exposes her imagination to the dark spirit.' And Virginia Woolf wrote, 'It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they tra