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Read “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Wuthering Heights” begins
1801 .—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
This is certainly a beautiful country!
In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.
A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “Wuthering Heights” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- master
- exclaim
- bear
- bid
- mistress
- observe
- strike
- companion
- dare
- inquire
- seek
- moor
- countenance
- mutter
- perceive
- desire
- devil
- commence
- utter
- soul
- interrupt
- tear
- cheek
- stare
- whisper
- candle
- attempt
- scarcely
- presence
- recover
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Wuthering Heights”
How much of each kind of grammar “Wuthering Heights” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Passive voice
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Past participle clause A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master’s return.
- Verb + object + to-infinitive Hareton will ask the master to send you upstairs, if you don’t behave!
- try to do He answered, I must try to endure it another hour, and they went away.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why Wuthering Heights is a great book to read in English
Two houses on the Yorkshire moors, and between them Heathcliff and Catherine — a love story told as something closer to a haunting. Emily Brontë's only novel (1847) is wild, structurally daring, and written in English with real weather in it.
On LangOrbit you read “Wuthering Heights” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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