Cumbres Borrascosas (título original en inglés: Wuthering Heights) es la única novela de Emily Brontë. Fue publicada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell. Su hermana Charlotte editó una segunda edición póstuma. Aunque ahora se considera un clásico de la literatura inglesa, el recibimiento inicial de Cumbres Borrascosas fue tibio en el mejor de los casos. Su estructura innovadora, que se suele comparar con un conjunto de muñecas de matryoshka, desconcertó a los críticos cuando apareció. Algunos críticos contemporáneos a la autora incluso pensaron que éste era un trabajo anterior, menos maduro, de Charlotte Brontë (que había publicado Jane Eyre ese mismo año bajo el seudónimo de Currer Bell). Las críticas posteriores revisaron esta visión, y coincidieron en que la originalidad de Cumbres Borrascosas excedió a la de los trabajos de sus hermanas Charlotte y Anne. Cumbres Borrascosas ha dado lugar a muchas adaptaciones, incluyendo varias películas, dramatizaciones radiofónicas y televisivas, un musical, telenovelas y canciones.

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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell"; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews for the novel were deeply polarised; it was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti referred to it as "A fiend of a book – an incredible monster [...] The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there." In the second half of the 19th century, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was considered the best of the Brontë sisters' works, but following later re-evaluation, critics began to argue that Wuthering Heights was superior. The book has inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, operas (by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin), a role-playing game, and a 1978 song by Kate Bush.

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