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Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847 and tells a tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the wild Yorkshire moors. When Mr. Earnshaw brings home an orphaned boy named Heathcliff, his daughter, Catherine, develops a close bond with the young boy—but her brother, Hindley, resents and mistreats him. When Hindley later assumes his father’s authority after Mr. Earnshaw’s death, he does everything he can to keep Heathcliff and Catherine apart, thus instilling in Heathcliff a deep-seated desire for revenge. To Heathcliff’s dismay, Catherine ends up marrying the closest ...

Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.Now considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, with many horrified by the stark depictions of mental and physical cruelty. Though Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was originally considered the best of the Brontë sisters' works, many subsequent critics ...

Wuthering Heights (Full Audiobookl) by Emily Brontë *Wuthering Heights* by Emily Brontë is a gothic novel that investigates the extreme, damaging connection between Heathcliff, an agonizing vagrant embraced by the Earnshaw family, and Catherine Earnshaw, his life as a youngster buddy and perfect partner. Raised together on the wild Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Catherine foster a profound, enthusiastic bond. In any case, Catherine decides to wed Edgar Linton, a well off neighbor, for societal position, making's Heathcliff extremely upset. Consumed by retribution, Heathcliff tries to ...

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