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{{quote|''How can I live without my heart? How can I live without my soul?''}}
The only novel written by [[Emily Brontë]] (of 'the [[Charlotte Brontë|Brontë]] [[Anne Brontë|sisters]]'), and an archetypal example of a Gothic Romance. Has been filmed several times, most notably [[Wuthering Heights (1939 film)|the 1939 version]] starring [[Laurence Olivier]] as Heathcliff. Also inspired the 1979 [[Kate Bush]] song of the same name ("Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home...") as well as an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqiUGjghlzU adaptation] in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. And perhaps we shouldn't forget [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]' album ''Wind and Wuthering'', which used a quotation from the book's ending for two of its song titles. And let's not also forget that [[MTV]] also did an adaptation of their own with Heathcliff as a guitar-strumming song-writer pitted against classic cello-playing Edgar.
It is 1801. The foppish gentleman Mr. Lockwood has moved to Thrushcross Grange, a manor house in the windswept and desolate Yorkshire Moors, where he introduces himself to Heathcliff, his surly, ill-mannered and unwelcoming landlord and master of the nearby Wuthering Heights. Forced to stay at Wuthering Heights overnight, Lockwood suffers a nightmare about the ghost of a young woman desperately pleading to be let back into the house; intrigued, Lockwood asks his housekeeper Nelly Dean to [[Framing Device|tell him the story of Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights]].
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