Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling.

‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.

The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner; and it was covered with writing scratched on the paint. This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small—Catherine Earnshaw, here and there varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton.

T’ maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath not o’ered, und t’ sound o’ t’ gospel still i’ yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking! Shame on ye! sit ye down, ill childer! there’s good books eneugh if ye’ll read ’em: sit ye down, and think o’ yer sowls!”

rebuking them for playing during a time of religious mourning and before a Bible reading. The quote highlights Joseph's stern religiosity and the challenging relationship between his strict beliefs and the often defiant children he supervises.

‘I’m not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.

Was not the Reverend Jabez Branderham akin to you on the mother’s side?

And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called—she must have been a changeling—wicked little soul! She told me she had been walking the earth...

A person who has not done one-half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.’

I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year’s standing.