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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847, which tells the story of two wealthy families on the Yorkshire moors and their destructive entanglement with a foster son named Heathcliff, exploring themes of love, revenge, and possession through Romantic and Gothic influences. The work is regarded as a classic of English literature.
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- 1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
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- I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Woeste Hoogten (oorspronkelijke titel: Wuthering Heights) is de enige roman van de Britse schrijfster Emily Brontë, gepubliceerd in 1847 onder het pseudoniem Ellis Bell. Het verhaal behelst de gepassioneerde en tumultueuze relatie tussen Catherine Earnshaw en Heathcliff, en hoe vernietigend hun liefde voor beide families is. Wuthering Heights behoort tot de belangrijkste en invloedrijkste boeken uit de Engelse literatuur. Het boek werd in het Nederlands ook uitgebracht als De barre hoogte en De woeste hoogte.
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