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December 1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the only neighbour that I shall be troubled with during my stay at my new home, Thrushcross Grange. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not think I could have found a place so wild, so completely apart from the stir of society. Yesterday afternoon was grey and cold. After a six-kilometre walk I arrived at my landlord’s house, Wuthering Heights, just as the first feathers of snow were falling. Here in the North of England, ‘wuthering’ means windy and stormy. The winds must indeed be violent here, as all the trees bend in the same direction, as if begging warmth from the sun. The house is strongly built, with narrow windows. It is very old: over the door I read the date 1500 and the name Hareton Earnshaw. Shaking with cold, I knocked on the door. Nobody came. At last an old man, clearly a servant, looked out of the window of one of the farm buildings…
Otto-Classics Graded Readers Series are outstanding classics written by famous writers. The language and vocabulary in the books are controlled and simplified by specialist ELT authors and compilers according to Common European Framework so that they can be easily understood by new learners of English. Depending on the eight levels from A1 to B2+, the longer stories are divided into a number of chapters and every chapter has its own activities. Some of the activities in the books are meant to be done in pairs. You may work with a partner to solve problems and design projects that reflect not only your own thinking but also new ideas you and your mates will discover by working in groups. |
