Wuthering Heights

             "Heathcliff shall never know how I love him... he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same," Catherine Earnshaw says as she pours her heart out to her servant Nelly Dean. Catherine loves Heathcliff more than she can understand, yet she is marrying Edgar Linton. This is just one of the many plot twists and emotional turns Emily Brontë takes her readers through. An epic soap opera, Wuthering Heights is a tale of unfulfilled romance that leads to agony and revenge. The novel shows what love can do to a person and how it affects even the depths of their soul.
             Stumbled upon by Mr. Lockwood, Wuthering Heights is an ancient English manor in the moor country. Lockwood has rented Thrushcross Grange, a manor house four miles away. One night, while traveling through the snow, he is forced to stay with Heathcliff and his two other boarders (Catherine Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw); that night he is visited by a ghost, also named Catherine. Bewildered and alarmed, he asks Nelly, who still works at Thrushcross, to tell him the story of the three boarders.
             Lockwood discovers he has entered a family feud that is out of this world and full of doomed love and revenge. Catherine Heathcliff's mother, Catherine Earnshaw grew up with her brother Hindley, their parents, and the stray child they took in, Heathcliff. Heathcliff and Catherine developed into great friends and eventually lovers but after she spends time at the Linton mansion, she is attracted to Edgar Linton and the two get married. Heathcliff is so hurt that he vows revenge by marrying and mistreating Edgar's sister, Isabella. Because his "brother" Hindley abused him after their father Mr. Earnshaw died, Heatchliff gets his revenge by not only mistreating Hindley's son Hareton but by getting control of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Catherine and Edgar have a daughter named
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