Open Book

How to Read Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights


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An introduction to the biographical circumstances and major themes of Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Brontë published in two volumes in 1847 — a year before her death the age of 30. It’s a love story, a portrait of two families in rural northern England. Its most compelling character, Heathcliff, provokes varying reactions of sympathy and exasperation for his responses to others’ mistreatment and disregard.

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Open BookBy Michael Ullyot


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