Wuthering Heights (Wisehouse Classics Edition). Emily Bronte

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       Wuthering Heights

       Wuthering Heights

       by

      Emily Brontë

       W

       Wisehouse Classics

      Emily Brontë

       Wuthering Heights

       Cover painting: Claude Monet (1840-1926) - Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son (1875) – Oil on canvas.

       Illustration on page 9: Wuthering Heights family tree. Using PD-Art reproductions of 18-19th-century British portraits of unknown people (2013) – by Shakko - Wikimedia

       Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi

      Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden

      ISBN 978-91-7637-182-4

      Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.

      © Wisehouse 2016 – Sweden

       www.wisehouse-classics.com

      © Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.

       Contents

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ELLIS AND ACTON BELL

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

       CHAPTER 10

       CHAPTER 11

       CHAPTER 12

       CHAPTER 13

       CHAPTER 14

       CHAPTER 15

       CHAPTER 16

       CHAPTER 17

       CHAPTER 18

       CHAPTER 19

       CHAPTER 20

       CHAPTER 21

       CHAPTER 22

       CHAPTER 23

       CHAPTER 24

       CHAPTER 25

       CHAPTER 26

       CHAPTER 27

       CHAPTER 28

       CHAPTER 29

       CHAPTER 30

       CHAPTER 31

       CHAPTER 32

       CHAPTER 33

       CHAPTER 34

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ELLIS AND ACTON BELL

      IT HAS BEEN THOUGHT THAT ALL THE WORKS PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAMES of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, were, in reality, the production of one person. This mistake I endeavoured to rectify by a few words of disclaimer prefixed to the third edition of “Jane Eyre.” These, too, it appears, failed to gain general credence, and now, on the occasion of a reprint of “Wuthering Heights” I am advised distinctly to state how the case really stands.

      Indeed, I feel myself that it is time the obscurity attending those two names— Ellis and Acton—was done away. The little mystery, which formerly yielded some harmless pleasure, has lost its interest; circumstances are changed. It becomes, then, my duty to explain briefly the origin and authorship of the books written by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

      About five years ago, my two sisters and myself, after a somewhat prolonged period of separation, found ourselves reunited, and at home. Resident in a remote district, where education had made little progress, and where, consequently, there was no inducement to seek social intercourse beyond our own domestic circle, we were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition; formerly we used to show each other what we wrote, but of late years this habit of communication and consultation had been discontinued; hence it ensued, that we were mutually ignorant of the progress we might respectively have made.

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