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Wuthering Heights

Name: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Brontë

by Emily Brontë · complete original text

34 chapters
119,166 words
about 917 min
novel

A lonely farmhouse stands on the Yorkshire moors. There, an orphan boy called Heathcliff grows up beside Catherine Earnshaw, and the two become wild, inseparable friends. When Catherine chooses another life, Heathcliff's love turns to a revenge that lasts for two generations.

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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.

A nod was the answer.

"Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts—"