Cover of Wuthering Heights [adaptation]

Wuthering Heights [adaptation]

One of the great romantic novels of English literature, Wuthering Heights is set against the wild and isolated Yorkshire moors. Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff become friends and as they grow older their relationship deepens. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton from the big house across the moor, Thrushcross Grange, since she feels it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. Heathcliff runs away and returns a few years later as a 'gentleman'. A series of events start to destroy the relationship between the Lintons and the Earnshaws, some with disastrous consequences...

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Activities including speaking, writing and listening skills

Background information on Emily Bronté and Wuthering Heights

and the imaginative world of the Bronté children

Recording of parts of the text

Extension exercises

—back cover

Audience
adult
Length
short · 144 pages

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