Daily News Item 2026-02-06 11:51

Sales of Wuthering Heights are “skyrocketing” ahead of the release of director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic, the Guardian reports. Penguin Classics UK notes a 459 percent increase in sales of the title in the United Kingdom; 10,670 copies of the book flew off British shelves in January 2026, as opposed to 1,875 in January 2025. Jess Harrison of Penguin Classics reflected on the surge in interest: “There seems to be a real yearning among readers for intense, maximalist, tragic love stories. We’ve seen huge demand for similarly angsty classics like Dostoevsky’s White Nights and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat. But Wuthering Heights stands apart in being so wild and unhinged—an extreme book for extreme times.”