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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ~ Full...

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte audiobook. Genre: tragedy On the lonely Yorkshire moors, an orphan named Heathcliff is taken into the Earnshaw household and grows up alongside their fierce, willful daughter, Catherine. Bound by a wild, consuming attachment and sharpened by cruelty and class prejudice, the two form a relationship that is as intimate as it ... Show More
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