Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847. Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. It is one of the nineteenth century’s most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father.