Wuthering Heights sometimes spelled Les Hauts de Wuthering Heights is the only novel by Emily Brontë, published for the first time in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. He is quoted by W. Somerset Maugham in 1954, in his essay Ten Novels and Their Authors (Ten novels and their authors) among the ten greatest novels by him. Other translations of title exist (see section "French Editions" below) but in France, the novel is only known as the Wuthering Heights. Story is both unusual and horrible, Wuthering Heights itself as a novel cruel characters - cruelty sometimes reaching even the nicest characters - and where death is haunting. Far from being a preachy story, Emily Brontë nevertheless completed the novel in a serene atmosphere, suggesting the triumph of peace and of course revenge and mal . historical context The novel shocked some readers of the time, including the lack of respect for legal agreements as well as by the darkness of his characters and situations. It intrigue criticism which, if not always hostile, none the less taken aback by the violence of some scenes. Sales are good for a first novel. The success of Wuthering Heights has frequently been underestimated due to the overwhelming success of Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, Emily sister, and published the same year. Today, the book is recognized as one of the greatest classics of literature of the nineteenth century, and has a significant place in the UK and world culture (film adaptations, opera, music, etc.). We can consider this novel as one of the last major works of European romanticism in literature. Criticism is often surprised that this novel has been written by a young woman living in near seclusion. They forget that, according to his sister Charlotte, Emily was passionately interested in the village chronicle, rich in stories as cruel and complicated as the plot of his novel (which, apparently, was inspired by a family drama in which Emily had knowledge while teaching in a school near Halifax) 2. Subsequent research showed that Emily Bronte knew the Greek tragedians, was good Latin scholar, and had a classic exceptional culture in a woman of époque. Emily Jane Brontë (July 30, 1818 Thornton - December 19, 1848 Haworth) is a British poet and novelist, sister of Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë. Wuthering Heights (Wuthering Heights), his only novel, is considered a classic of English literature. Emily Brontë wrote also many high quality poems, an important part was written as part of Gondal cycle .Cinquième Child in a family of six, Emily Brontë spent almost his entire short life in a parsonage in Haworth, Yorkshire, where his father, Patrick Brontë, was pastor. During his childhood, after the death of his mother and his two older sisters in a boarding school, his father, Patrick Brontë and her maternal aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, decide to let the children a lot of freedom. A gift from their father Branwell (twelve wooden soldiers) in June 1826 set in motion their imagination: From December 1827, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell begin to create imaginary worlds, with "Glass Town confederation", they depict in stories, poems, articles from newspapers, drama show. Then, in 1831, when Charlotte leaves to continue his studies, Emily and Anne secede and create the land of Gondal, rougher and more austere qu'Angria, and headed by a woman, Augusta Geraldine Almeda. It is in the Gondal cycle that much of Emily's poems will be written. Another creation is the kingdom of Gaaldine, which depends also Gondal: Emily Bronte poem titled Come hither child was written in July 1839; set in the imaginary kingdom of Gaaldine, it refers to Ula, one of the provinces of the kingdom.