Bedside Lamp English Learning Reader I: Wuthering Heights (Pure English Version)

Author: (English) Emily Bront?
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: In northern England, there is a place called Wuthering Heights. Its owner, Earnshaw, adopts an orphan and names him Heathcliff. He brings Heathcliff to live with his son Hindley and daughter Catherine (Cathy). Heathcliff and Cathy grow up together and develop a deep love, but Hindley despises him. After Earnshaw's death, Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. He does everything in his power to make life difficult for Heathcliff, deepening their hatred. However, Heathcliff's love for Cathy remains unchanged. The son of the owner of a nearby estate, Thrushcross Grange, Edgar, proposes to Cathy. The innocent and naive Cathy agrees to marry Edgar, hoping to use his family's wealth to help Heathcliff escape his brother's oppression. Upon learning that Cathy plans to marry Edgar, Heathcliff leaves in anger. Several years later, a handsome and dashing visitor arrives at Edgar's estate. It is Heathcliff, who has mysteriously returned after amassing wealth. His only purpose for this return is to seek revenge. After losing his wife, Hindley falls into the vices of alcohol and gambling. When he sees Heathcliff return wealthy, he invites him to stay at the estate. Heathcliff exploits Hindley's vices and easily takes away his entire fortune. Edgar's sister, Isabella, sees Heathcliff as a legendary hero. Heathcliff marries her through deceit and treats her cruelly after the marriage. Isabella leaves him after realizing his true nature and later gives birth to a son, Linton. Cathy dies in childbirth, giving birth to a daughter, Cathy. After Isabella's death, Heathcliff takes her son back and manipulates him into falling in love with Cathy. When Linton falls ill, Heathcliff abducts Cathy and forces her to marry his son, Linton, thereby seizing the entire estate of the Lintons and completing his revenge. Linton dies soon after, and Cathy falls in love with Harry, Hindley's son, which goes against Heathcliff's wishes. Meanwhile, Heathcliff is tormented by Cathy's ghost, unable to rest. He sees his younger self and Cathy in the eyes of Harry and Cathy. Love triumphs over hatred, and he cannot bear to continue his endless revenge. He decides to seek Cathy. On a stormy night, filled with emptiness and having endured all the hardships of life, he calls out her name and leaves the world.