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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

A new tenant visits Wuthering Heights and meets its strange master.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Advanced3,535 characters · ≈ 5 minSource: Project Gutenberg
Books behind this year’s screen adaptations

Wuthering Heights (2026 film), directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

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1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven—and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

“Mr. Heathcliff?” I said.

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About the book

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by English author Emily Brontë, first published in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell. It tells of two landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent ties with the Earnshaws' foster son Heathcliff. Blending Romanticism and Gothic fiction with themes of love, revenge, and reconciliation, it is regarded as a classic of English literature.

About the author

Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

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