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Chapter 1
Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, visits his landlord Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights for the first time.
Chapter 2
Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights a second time and is forced to stay the night when a snowstorm traps him. He meets the young widow Cathy and the rough young man Hareton Earnshaw…
Chapter 3
Sleeping in the hidden room, Lockwood finds old books covered in a young Catherine Earnshaw's handwriting and reads her diary entries.
Chapter 4
Back at Thrushcross Grange, Lockwood asks his housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him about Heathcliff and the history of Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 5
Old Mr. Earnshaw's health declines and he grows increasingly irritable.
Chapter 6
Hindley's grip on Wuthering Heights tightens as he bars Heathcliff from receiving any education and forces him into servant's work.
Chapter 7
Catherine returns from Thrushcross Grange polished and ladylike, and the contrast with Heathcliff is now visible. The Linton children visit for Christmas, and Heathcliff is humili…
Chapter 8
Hindley's wife Frances dies after giving birth to Hareton, and Hindley collapses into alcoholism and self-destruction.
Chapter 9
Catherine tells Nelly she has accepted Edgar's marriage proposal, but in the same conversation admits that her love for Heathcliff is something different and deeper than what she…
Chapter 10
Three years pass. Catherine is now Mrs.
Chapter 11
Nelly visits Wuthering Heights and finds things deteriorating fast. Hindley is a wreck, Hareton is growing up wild and uncouth, and Heathcliff has made himself at home as the de f…
Chapter 12
Catherine's self-starvation tips into genuine delirium. She hallucinates, tears feathers from her pillow, and becomes convinced she is back at Wuthering Heights as a child.
Chapter 13
Two months pass. Catherine is physically alive but permanently weakened, and she is pregnant.
Chapter 14
Nelly visits Wuthering Heights in person and sees the situation Isabella described. Heathcliff corners Nelly and demands she carry a message to Catherine.
Chapter 15
Heathcliff gets into Thrushcross Grange while Edgar is at church and finds Catherine alone. Their reunion is intense and painful.
Chapter 16
Catherine dies giving birth to a daughter, also named Catherine. Heathcliff, kept outside by Nelly, learns of her death and reacts with raw, almost violent grief, begging her spir…
Chapter 17
Isabella flees Wuthering Heights and arrives at Thrushcross Grange, telling Nelly about the brutal conditions of her life with Heathcliff.
Chapter 18
The narrative jumps forward about twelve years. Young Cathy has grown up sheltered at Thrushcross Grange, curious about the world beyond its walls.
Chapter 19
Linton Heathcliff, Isabella's sickly son, arrives at Thrushcross Grange after his mother's death. Edgar takes him in briefly, but Heathcliff immediately demands the boy be sent to…
Chapter 20
Nelly delivers Linton to Wuthering Heights as ordered. The house is grim and unwelcoming.
Chapter 21
Cathy and Hareton have grown up side by side at Wuthering Heights, but their relationship is awkward and unequal. During a visit, Cathy meets Linton Heathcliff again and is drawn…
Chapter 22
Edgar Linton's health is declining fast, and Cathy is increasingly confined to Thrushcross Grange to care for him. On a walk with Nelly, Cathy accidentally ends up outside the gro…
Chapter 23
Cathy visits Linton at Wuthering Heights and finds him even more ill and emotionally manipulative than before. He guilts her into promising to return, claiming her visits are the…
Chapter 24
Cathy confesses to Nelly that she has been visiting Wuthering Heights secretly for weeks. She describes what she saw there: Hareton trying to impress her and being humiliated, Lin…
Chapter 25
Edgar is now close to death. He and Nelly discuss Linton, and Edgar admits he hopes the match between Cathy and Linton might work out, because he wants Cathy to have someone after…
Chapter 26
Linton and young Cathy meet again at the moors, but Linton is visibly worse. He is weak, frightened, and clearly acting under pressure from Heathcliff.
Chapter 27
Cathy and Nelly return to meet Linton and are lured inside Wuthering Heights by Heathcliff. Once inside, Heathcliff locks them in.
Chapter 28
Nelly is kept locked up at Wuthering Heights for five days. During that time, Cathy is forced to marry Linton.
Chapter 29
Heathcliff comes to Thrushcross Grange to take Cathy back to Wuthering Heights, where she will live as a servant in all but name.
Chapter 30
Nelly's narrative catches up to the present. Linton dies shortly after Cathy arrives at Wuthering Heights, leaving her a widow with nothing.
Chapter 31
Nelly sends Hareton to deliver a note to Cathy at Wuthering Heights. Cathy is still trapped there, miserable and isolated, but Hareton tries to make conversation.
Chapter 32
Nelly returns to Wuthering Heights as housekeeper after Heathcliff asks her to come back. She finds that something has shifted between Cathy and Hareton.
Chapter 33
Heathcliff's decline accelerates. He tells Nelly he is haunted constantly, not by a ghost exactly, but by Catherine's presence everywhere he looks.
Chapter 34
Heathcliff dies. He is found in Catherine's old room at Wuthering Heights with the window open, his hand cut by the glass, and a look on his face that Nelly finds unsettling rathe…
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