Wuthering Heights suffers from the violence of his feelings, and at the end is entangled by his thwarted passion". At one stage Heathcliff is described as a vampire, and it has been suggested that both he and Catherine are in fact meant to be seen as vampire like personalities. The original text, as published by Thomas Cautley Newby in 1847, is available online in two parts. The novel was first published together with Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" in a three-volume format: "Wuthering Heights" occupied the first two volumes, while "Agnes Grey" made up the third. In 1850, when a second edition of
Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He worked on it from 1943 to 1951. It is cast in a prologue, 4 acts, and an epilogue that repeats the music of the prologue. The opera was recorded in full by the composer in 1966, but it had to wait until April 2011, the centenary of the composer's birth, for a complete theatrical performance (there was an abridged stage production in 1982 and a concert version in 2010). The libretto was by Herrmann's first wife, Lucille Fletcher, based on the first part of Emily