Wuthering Heights: Usborne Classics Retold: Usborne Classics RetoldEmily Brontë's haunting tale of love and revenge, rivetingly retold for today's readers, remains as powerful and gripping as the day it was first written. High on the windswept Yorkshire moors, an old farmhouse hides dark secrets. What is the strange history of Wuthering Heights? Why has Heathcliff, its mysterious owner, cut himself off from the world - and who is the unearthly girl wandering the moors at night? |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | |
HEATHCLIFF ARRIVES | |
HEATHCLIFF AND CATHY | |
EDGAR AND CATHY | |
A SURPRISING VISITOR | |
QUARRELS AT THE GRANGE | |
ISABELLAS STORY | |
BIRTHS AND DEATHS | |
CATHERINE AND HER COUSINS | |
OTHER VERSIONS OF THE STORY | |
Common terms and phrases
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