Title: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Authors Bio: Emily Brontë lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. She was born in 1818, two years after Charlotte and a year and a half before her sister Anne, who also became an author. Her father worked as a church rector, and her aunt, who raised the Brontë children after their mother died, was deeply religious. She died in 1848, at the age of thirty.
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Setting: 1847
Theme: The destructiveness of a love that never changes; the precariousness of social class
Plot Synopsis: In the winter of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord, Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights, four miles away from the Grange. In this wild, stormy countryside, Lockwood asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of Heathcliff and the strange denizens of Wuthering......
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Approximate Word Count: 1931
Approximate Pages: 8 (260 words per double-spaced page) |