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Wuthering Heights
- 318 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1847
- 2,888 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
- Classics
- Country life
- Family life
- Historical fiction
- Rejection (Psychology)
- Domestic fiction
- Classic fiction
- Country homes
2 What to expect
A stormy, cruel story of love and revenge on the Yorkshire moors, told through layered narrators. Dark and intense; not a sweet romance.
Good for readers who want: a classic, gothic fiction, and love and revenge.
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Read it on the Internet Archive4 About Emily Brontë
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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