In fact, there are dozens, including a 1988 Japanese incarnation, a 2015 retelling set in a California high school, and several versions from India, a Bollywood musical among them. That said, not everyone loves Brontë’s book: For every reader who adores its intricate plot and discomfiting view of humanity, there’s at least one more who trudged through it in high school or college, never to return. Yet its polarizing effect may be the key to its magnetism; even those who dislike it have certainly absorbed some of its fragrant dolorousness into their bones. And although scholars are still debating whether Brontë set out to write a romance—she may have been more fixated on dissecting Victorian societal strictures—nearly everyone connects with the romantic, if dangerous, allure of the lovers at the heart of this story.