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Can anyone understand Joseph's old Yorkshire dialect? Perhaps the book would have been better with him dictating the story to Lockwood?
Celya At the start, I try to read it aloud exactly as it appears in the text and after I get the hang of it, I am able to make sense of it. There was one pa…moreAt the start, I try to read it aloud exactly as it appears in the text and after I get the hang of it, I am able to make sense of it. There was one passage where it was very long and he was retelling what Catherine and Heathcliff had done, and that is one that I did skim over. (less)
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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