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Article: Works of Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights: Chapters 1 - 7
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Bronte, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Wuthering Heights: Chapters 1 - 7
Chapter One
The date at the beginning of the novel is 1801. In this year, Mr.
Lockwood, a fashionable gentleman, rents a house in a lonely and desolate
corner of northern England owned by a Mr. Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights,
written in the form of Lockwood's diary, is the story of Heathcliff, and of
his two houses - Thrushcross Grange, which Linton rents, and Wuthering
Heights, where he himself resides.
The desolation of this northern landscape suits Lockwood perfectly, for
he likes to think of himself as proud and anti-social. Indeed, he is soon
telling us of a recent trip he took to the seaside where, having found ...
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... ... Earnshaw brings Heathcliff home to his family at Wuthering Heights, he becomes the host of a cuckoo. Heathcliff, a child abandoned ... whole way from Wuthering Heights . . . Except where ... flown" (206). Heathcliff is the typical ...
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