Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront 's classic tale of tumultuous love thrown up against envy, regret, and revenge. A widely read romance today, it was cutting edge in the 1800s. In fact, aware that she was writing against the grain of the Victorian era, Bront originally released the work under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell." At the time, a reviewer wrote that Bront 's book described "brutal cruelty, and semi-savage love." The women: "tantalising, and terrible." The men: "indescribable out of the book itself." In weaving her story so, Bront left her mark on English literature forever.