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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s only novel, was published in 1847. It narrates the tumultuous relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, exploring themes of revenge, jealousy, and the destructive nature of love. Set against the moody backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, it remains a profound exploration of the human psyche and the complexities of the heart.

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Wuthering Heights
stickinhisseln loike a cawlf. Thats maister, yah knaw, ’ats soa
up ogoing tuh tgrandsizes. Hes noan feared otbench ojudges, norther Paul, nur Peter, nur John, nur Matthew, nor noan onem, not he! He fair likeshe langs to set his brazened face ageanem!
And yon bonny lad Heathcliff, yah mind, hes a rareun. He can girn a
laugh as wells onybody at a raight divils jest. Does he niver say
nowt of his fine living amang us, when he goes to tGrange? This is tway ont:—up at sun-down: dice, brandy, cloised shutters, und
canle-light till next day at noon: then, tfooil gangs banning un
raving to his chamer, makking dacent fowks dig thur fingers ithur
lugs fur varry shame; unthe knave, why he can caint his brass, unate, unsleep, unoff to his neighbours to gossip witwife. Icourse, he tells Dame Catherine how her fathurs goold runs into his
pocket, and her fathurs son gallops down tbroad road, while he flees
afore to oppen tpikes!’ Now, Miss Linton, Joseph is an old rascal,
but no liar; and, if his account of Heathcliffs conduct be true, you
would never think of desiring such a husband, would you?”

“You are leagued with the rest, Ellen!” she replied. “Ill not listen
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– Gustave Flaubert

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