"Cliff Notes - Wuthering Heights" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

landlord, a Mr. Heathcliff, who lives a few miles away at a
smaller place called Wuthering Heights, he finds his new
neighbor surly and quarrelsome. Forced to spend the night there
because of a snowstorm, he dreams of a ghost calling itself
Catherine Linton. Back at the Grange, he asks his housekeeper,
Ellen (Nelly) Dean, to tell him about the strange household at
Wuthering Heights.

Mrs. Dean's story begins thirty years before, when Wuthering
Heights was the home of a respectable family called the
Earnshaws. After a visit to Liverpool, Mr. Earnshaw has
brought home a stray gypsy lad, whom he calls Heathcliff, to
raise with his own children, Hindley and Catherine. Catherine
feels a special closeness with Heathcliff, but Hindley hates him
because the gypsy boy is Mr. Earnshaw's favorite. Shortly
after his father dies, Hindley comes home from school with a new
wife, and forces Heathcliff into the role of servant. Cathy
takes Heathcliff's side, and the two run wild together on the
moors, eventually falling in love. On one of their rambles they
are caught peeking into the windows of Thrushcross Grange, where
the Lintons live. The Linton children, Edgar and Isabella, are
afraid of the rough Heathcliff, but become fond of Catherine,
who is forced to stay with them for several weeks to recover
from the bite of their watchdog.

When Cathy returns home, she's dressed like a lady and has
given up her wild ways. She laughs at Heathcliff's black, cross
look, and he runs off in anger. Hindley's wife dies soon after
bearing a son, and in his grief Hindley treats Heathcliff worse
than ever. Cathy and Heathcliff have also been arguing
intensely.

Thus when Edgar Linton proposes, Cathy accepts. Afterward
she tells Ellen, the housekeeper, that Edgar is handsome and
cheerful, and that he's going to be rich one day. It would
degrade her to marry Heathcliff now, she says, even though she
believes she belongs with him.

Unbeknownst to Cathy, Heathcliff has been listening, and when
he hears her say it would degrade her to marry him, he runs
away. Cathy is beside herself when she learns he's gone, and
falls ill.

Three years later, Cathy and Edgar marry, and together with
Ellen, whom they persuade to come with them, make their home at
Thrushcross Grange. The young couple have been happy together
for six months when Heathcliff returns, a rich and educated man.
He stays at Wuthering Heights with his old enemy Hindley, who's
now a drunk. When Heathcliff visits Thrushcross Grange, Cathy
is delighted to see him. Isabella Linton soon falls in love