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From: The Women's Review of Books
Date: 19980301
Author:Steinitz, Rebecca

I love wuthering heights. I love Alice Hoffman. What could be more promising than a new Alice Hoffman novel that rewrites Wuthering Heights?

Emily Bronte's great Victorian novel of passion tells of the havoc wreaked upon the Earnshaw and Linton families by the foundling Heathcliff. Brought home from Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff forms an incendiary attachment to Catherine Earnshaw and usurps the place of Catherine's brother Hindley, only to be tyrannized in turn by Hindley after his father's death. When Catherine, entranced by the wealthy Lintons who live nearby, decides ...

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