Think of Emily Bronte’s famous gothic romance, Wuthering Heights, and you’re likely picturing sprawling English moors, heavy gray winds, and bleak skies. But with each new edition of Wuthering Heights, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in 1847, there's a new cover with fresh visuals. Which of these book covers do you feel best epitomizes the novel?

This campy 2013 cover quite literally made me laugh out loud. A forlorn-looking, windswept Humphrey Bogart with his trademark cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and the caption "Here's looking at you Cathy..." What's not to love?

If I wanted to get a little technical, I might compare the Bogart/Bergman relationship in Casablanca to Catherine and Heathcliff's. Okay, Bogie's Rick Blaine is one of film history's all-time sympathetic, self-sacrificing lovers and I'm not sure you can say the same for Heathcliff. But it's still an awesome cover! 

This one, aimed at a YA audience, is not bad. First, you have the moors in the background—and you can't approach any conversation about Wuthering Heights without talking about English moorlands. Next, the faded watercolors invoke Emily Bronte's images of Heathcliff and Cathy's spirits together in the afterlife, with the space between them the distance they can't seem to cross during life.

But Wuthering Heights is a bold novel. This cover, unfortunately, is not.

This cover is adapted from a 2011 film based on the novel, a version of Wuthering Heights in which a Black actor is cast in the role of Heathcliff. Emily Bronte does describe Heathcliff as "black" and most films have interpreted this by casting Heathcliff with dark hair and eyes.

It never occurred to me that Bronte meant race in her description of Heathcliff, and it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility. I like this interpretation of the novel because it expanded my view of the story.

This cover is just too romantic for me. Heathcliff and Cathy’s love is a strong force, but it’s also destructive, and what’s romantic about that?

Hareton and Cathy (the original Cathy’s daughter) achieve a more traditional romance, but with all the destruction that comes before it, can anyone say that Wuthering Heights is about romance? (Especially since the book’s final images are full of ghosts and graveyards.)

My point is a Wuthering Heights book cover full of roses—even with all the thorns—just doesn’t cut it.

This Spanish language (Cumbres borrascosas) cover encompasses Wuthering Heights’ major themes and it’s my favorite.

First, of course, are the dark moors. The figure standing at the top is not only isolated but nondescript, at dark shadow against a deep blue sky. Next, hovering over everything is the wavy lines of a female figure that also look like an ethereal wind. This woman has to be Cathy, the character that hovers over everything and everyone, even when she’s not there; even when she’s just a wisp of air. The man on the hill could be any of the men affected by Cathy: Heathcliff or Edgar Linton; Hareton or Linton.

Wuthering Heights is always described by words like atmospheric, gothic, and haunting, and all of those words are in this cover.