On the Yorkshire moors, the fierce, doomed passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw drives cycles of revenge across two families and generations.
Books mentioned in Wuthering Heights (1)
King Lear by William Shakespeare: “…their peril to keep me one minute longer--with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.”
Books that mention Wuthering Heights (19)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: “She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. “Have you read it?” she said.”
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: “none of the books she read, from _Wuthering Heights_ to _Man and Superman_, and the plays of Ibsen”
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence: “He bought her a copy of Wuthering Heights from a bookstall.”
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole: “It was like that man in Wuthering Heights”
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides: “King Arthur and Camelot; Wuthering Heights and Jane Austen, Shakespeare—and Tennyson.”
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: “My hand hovered instead over the old favorites: The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre… But it was no good.”
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: “...some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw.”
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote: “"Wuthering Heights," she said, without hesitation. The urge in my hand was growing beyond control. "But that's unreasonable. You're talking about a work of genius."”
The Rebel by Albert Camus: “Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to possess Cathy, but it would never occur to him to say that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “the handful of enduring poems by Emily Bronte, the seer of Wuthering Heights”
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth: “Sturmhöhe. Ach, Sturmhöhe habe ich geliebt.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “a passage in which The Ancient Mariner seems to meet Wuthering Heights (the Italian title of Bronte's novel, Cime tempestose, is echoed in 'Tempesta solare')”
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy: “I showed her a picture of Heathcliff lying on Cathy's grave from an old illustrated edition of Wuthering Heights.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “But why should I have cared how anyone else was writing, or living, when I had Wuthering Heights as a model of how to write and of how to live.”
Outline by Rachel Cusk: “the chapter in Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff and Cathy stare from the dark garden through the windows of the Lintons' drawing room”
Partita by Barbara Kingsolver: “wouldn't your literature students all be reading Marvel Comics instead of Wuthering Heights?”
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee: “copies of Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights that she read and reread for comfort”