A member of an intellectual family of misfits--the legendary Brontes--Emily was the stormy, impassioned, and poetic sister. In her one of only novel Wuthering Heights she writes, 'A perfect misanthropist's heaven; and Mr. Heathcliff a...

Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr. Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw?s son, despises him, but his sister, wild Cathy, becomes Heathcliff?s constant companion, and he falls violently in love with her. When...