Emily Brontë published her only novel in 1847, which to this day has lost none of its haunting romantic fascination. The story tells of the boundless love that transcends death between the young landowner's daughter Catherine and the demonic foundling Heathcliff, one of the first anti-heroes in literary history. While the novel adheres to the classical ideal of romantic love, it also reveals the psychological and social downside of an unrestrained passion that inevitably leads to madness and death.