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Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Language
English
First published
1847
Reading time
504 minutes
Chapters
34 chapters

About this book

In the winter of 1801 a new tenant, Mr Lockwood, calls on his landlord Heathcliff at the lonely farmhouse of Wuthering Heights and is trapped there for a night by snow.

Back at his own house, the housekeeper Nelly Dean tells him the history of two families of the moors and of the fierce bond between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Emily Brontë's only novel shocked its first readers with its wildness; today it counts among the greatest English novels. Read it for its stormy Yorkshire setting, its stories within stories and a love that refuses to be tamed.

1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of…

Chapter I

About this edition

  • Source

    Project Gutenberg (eBook #768)

    Text version

    Project Gutenberg eBook #768 (updated 6 May 2026), downloaded 7 November 2026; the file does not name its print edition. Only the title lines were not imported; the 34 chapters are unchanged. The file does not contain Charlotte Brontë's biographical notice and preface of 1850.

  • License

    Public domain

    Copyright status last verified: 9 November 2026

  • Category

    Classic Novels

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Chapters

34 chapters
  1. Chapter I9 min
  2. Chapter II15 min
  3. Chapter III21 min
  4. Chapter IV12 min
  5. Chapter V7 min
  6. Chapter VI12 min
  7. Chapter VII18 min
  8. Chapter VIII15 min
  9. Chapter IX27 min
  10. Chapter X28 min
  11. Chapter XI18 min
  12. Chapter XII22 min
  13. Chapter XIII19 min
  14. Chapter XIV15 min
  15. Chapter XV14 min
  16. Chapter XVI8 min
  17. Chapter XVII30 min
  18. Chapter XVIII16 min
  19. Chapter XIX7 min
  20. Chapter XX10 min
  21. Chapter XXI28 min
  22. Chapter XXII11 min
  23. Chapter XXIII13 min
  24. Chapter XXIV17 min
  25. Chapter XXV7 min
  26. Chapter XXVI7 min
  27. Chapter XXVII20 min
  28. Chapter XXVIII12 min
  29. Chapter XXIX10 min
  30. Chapter XXX11 min
  31. Chapter XXXI10 min
  32. Chapter XXXII18 min
  33. Chapter XXXIII14 min
  34. Chapter XXXIV20 min

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