Wuthering Heights EMILY BRONTË ‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’ Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is set in the heart of the dark moors and chronicles the star-crossed love between Heathcliff and Catherine. Theirs is not a wistful romance – the love between these two ill-fated people is obsessive and cruel, bordering on violent. But love it is, and it extends beyond the mortal constraints of life and death. Their fate irrevocably linked, Heathcliff and Cathy’s doomed affair will affect not only their own lives, but also the lives of those around them – continuing to haunt the generations that follow. At once a story of desire and vengeance, Wuthering Heights explores the thin line that separates pain and pleasure, passion and obsession.