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Heathcliff and Cathy are top love story

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From: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
Date: 20070810
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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been named Britain's favourite love story of all time.

The 1847 tale of thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, set on the Yorkshire moors, pipped classics by Daphne du Maurier, D.H. Lawrence in the poll.

Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen came second. Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, the oldest work in the top 20, is third.

The poll, commissioned by UKTV Drama, found that Romeo And Juliet also contains the favourite romantic moment of all time: the star- crossed lovers' balcony scene.

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre was fourth, followed by ...

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