文档介绍：Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She died at the age of 30. She remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because information about her is sparse, due to her solitary and reclusive nature. She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.
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Wuthering Heights
Thrushcross Grange
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Plot
Opening (chapters 1 to 3)
Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17)
Heathcliff's maturity (chapters 18 to 31)
Ending (chapters 32 to 34)
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Opening (chapters 1 to 3)
In 1801, Mr Lockwood, a wealthy man from the south of England, rents Thrushcross Grange in the north for peace. He visits his landlord, Mr Heathcliff and he finds an odd assemblage which arouses his Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange, he asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, about the family at Wuthering Heights, and she tells him the tale.
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Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17)
Thirty years earlier, Wuthering Heights is occupied by Mr Earnshaw, with his son Hindley and his daughter Catherine. On a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw encounters a homeless gypsy boy. He adopts the boy and names him Heathcliff. Hindley feels that Heathcliff has supplanted him in his father's affections and becomes bitterly jealous. Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and become close. Three years later, Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. He returns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant.
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However, Catherine confesses to Nelly that she will marry Edgar Linton, who lives in Thrushcross Grange , although her love for Edgar is not comparable to her love for Heathcliff, whom she cannot marry because of his low social status and lack of education. Heathcliff overhears this and in despair runs away.
Later, Hea