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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

On the bleak moors of Yorkshire, a gentleman named Lockwood rents a remote house and finds himself a guest at Wuthering Heights, the farmhouse of a brooding and unfriendly landlord named Heathcliff. Curious about the household, Lockwood learns from the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, the story of the family who lived there and of the events that led to its strange present.

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Nelly's account reaches back to the arrival of a dark-eyed foundling taken into the Earnshaw household, and to the bond that grew between him and the daughter of the house, Catherine. Their closeness, and the choices that pulled them apart, set in motion a long chain of passion, pride and revenge that spreads across two generations.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 96 pages

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