Wuthering heights Wuthering Heights is a novel by emily bronte, a British woman writer. Mountains and seas are not afraid of thousands of miles, which is a sentence in the book. Because the whole article is full of strong fighting spirit of resisting oppression and pursuing happiness, emily bronte uses mountains and seas to show the process of the characters' struggle for love. Wuthering Heights mainly describes Heathcliff, a gypsy outcast, who went out to get rich because of humiliation and unsuccessful love after being adopted by the old owner of the villa. When he came back, he took revenge on Fangdong Linton, who married his girlfriend Catherine, and his children.