Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 5

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West.

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights.

When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

EMILY BRONTE

Wuthering Heights

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Love is not always a happy experience. Nor do people who love each other always treat each other gently. We are all familiar with stories where two lovers are kept apart by outside forces – sometimes by their families, sometimes by the customs of their society.

In Wuthering Heights the main force that keeps the lovers apart is themselves. The characters in this story, just like real people, have weaknesses – and their weaknesses lead them into unhappiness. They are proud and selfish; they often have mixed feelings and are unable to make up their minds. For these reasons love often fails, but rarely as passionately and dramatically as in this story.

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PEOPLE IN THIS STORY

MR LOCKWOOD’S STORY, 1801 TO 1802

At Thrushcross Grange

Mr Lockwood, the narrator

Ellen Dean, the housekeeper

At Wuthering Heights

Mr Heathcliff, the landlord of Thrushcross Grange

Mrs Cathy Heathcliff, a widow and Mr Heathcliff’s daughter-in-law

Hareton Earnshaw

Joseph, a servant

Zillah, a housekeeper

ELLEN DEAN’S STORY, 1770 TO 1802

Mr Earnshaw

Hindley Earnshaw, his s