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... Wuthering Heights , but Emily Brontë makes use of no such set descriptive passages as we find variously in Scott , Dickens , George Eliot , Hardy , or Lawrence . The reality of her characters cannot be questioned , but their reality is ...
... Wuthering Heights , but Emily Brontë makes use of no such set descriptive passages as we find variously in Scott , Dickens , George Eliot , Hardy , or Lawrence . The reality of her characters cannot be questioned , but their reality is ...
Page 187
... Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw , ' the old master ' . His history , as Nelly Dean says , is ' a cuckoo's ' . Yet Nelly is scarcely fair to Heath- cliff . Circumstances have made him a cuckoo . On one level Wuthering Heights is a novel ...
... Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw , ' the old master ' . His history , as Nelly Dean says , is ' a cuckoo's ' . Yet Nelly is scarcely fair to Heath- cliff . Circumstances have made him a cuckoo . On one level Wuthering Heights is a novel ...
Page 188
... Wuthering Heights and its flawlessness as a totality . Everything in the novel works together to produce the concreteness , the characters , the action , the kinetic prose that renders a whole landscape and geography and climate without ...
... Wuthering Heights and its flawlessness as a totality . Everything in the novel works together to produce the concreteness , the characters , the action , the kinetic prose that renders a whole landscape and geography and climate without ...
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