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 earliest known film adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" was filmed in England in 1920 and it was directed by A. V. Bramble. It is unknown if any prints still exist. The most famous was 1939's "Wuthering Heights", starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and directed by William Wyler. This acclaimed adaptation, like many others, eliminated the second generation's story (young Cathy, Linton and Hareton) and is rather inaccurate as a literary adaptation. It won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film and was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1967 the BBC produced