Classic·Gothic Fiction
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Beneath the grandeur of the Paris Opera House lurks a disfigured genius whose consuming obsession turns deadly.
Shared themes:Gothic horror
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1847 · Complete work
Wuthering Heights
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“On the windswept Yorkshire moors, an all-consuming passion turns into an unrelenting cycle of vengeance across generations.”
When Mr. Lockwood rents Thrushcross Grange, he encounters his brooding landlord, Heathcliff, in the desolate winds of the Yorkshire moors. Through the recollections of the housekeeper Nelly Dean, a turbulent history unfolds: the arrival of Heathcliff as a foundling, his ferocious bond with Catherine Earnshaw, and the social barriers that tear them apart. Emily Brontë’s solitary masterpiece charts the collision of raw nature, class resentments, and a romance so intense it transcends mortal limits. It is a haunting exploration of obsession, cruelty, and the ghosts of unresolved passion.
61 Episodes · Classic
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Episode 01
~11 min
Chapter I
““Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,” was the reflection suggested by this compound order.”
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Episode 02
~10 min
Chapter II · I
““There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.””
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Episode 03
~7 min
Chapter II · II
““The roads will be buried already; and, if they were bare, I could scarcely distinguish a foot in advance.””
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Episode 04
~14 min
Chapter III · I
“The whole furniture consisted of a chair, a clothes-press, and a large oak case, with squares cut out near the top resembling coach windows.”
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Episode 05
~10 min
Chapter III · II
““It is only your guest, sir,” I called out, desirous to spare him the humiliation of exposing his cowardice further.”
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Episode 06
~8 min
Chapter IV · I
““Eighteen, sir: I came when the mistress was married, to wait on her; after she died, the master retained me for his housekeeper.””
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Episode 07
~6 min
Chapter IV · II
“By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw’s door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber.”
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Episode 08
~8 min
Chapter V
“We might have got on tolerably, notwithstanding, but for two people—Miss Cathy, and Joseph, the servant: you saw him, I daresay, up yonder.”
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Episode 09
~7 min
Chapter VI · I
“She was rather thin, but young, and fresh-complexioned, and her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds.”
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Episode 10
~6 min
Chapter VI · II
““Still you have not told me, Heathcliff, how Catherine is left behind?””
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Episode 11
~12 min
Chapter VII · I
““You may come and wish Miss Catherine welcome, like the other servants.””
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Episode 12
~9 min
Chapter VII · II
““I didn’t,” sobbed the youth, escaping from my hands, and finishing the remainder of the purification with his cambric pocket-handkerchief.”
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Episode 13
~10 min
Chapter VIII · I
““I think he swore: but I didn’t mind him, I was straining to see the bairn,” and she began again to describe it rapturously.”
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Episode 14
~7 min
Chapter VIII · II
““As it rains, I hardly expect them; but they may come, and if they do, you run the risk of being scolded for no good.””
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Episode 15
~11 min
Chapter IX · I
““There, I’ve found it out at last!” cried Hindley, pulling me back by the skin of my neck, like a dog.”
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Episode 17
~7 min
Chapter IX · III
““I’ve been wet,” she answered reluctantly, “and I’m cold, that’s all.””
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Episode 18
~12 min
Chapter X · I
““It wants twenty minutes, sir, to taking the medicine,” she commenced.”
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Episode 19
~14 min
Chapter X · II
““No, to Wuthering Heights,” he answered: “Mr. Earnshaw invited me, when I called this morning.””
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Episode 20
~6 min
Chapter X · III
““Come in, that’s right!” exclaimed the mistress, gaily, pulling a chair to the fire.”
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Episode 21
~12 min
Chapter XI · I
“One time I passed the old gate, going out of my way, on a journey to Gimmerton.”
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Episode 22
~9 min
Chapter XI · II
““Fair means!” she said, in answer to her husband’s look of angry surprise.”
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Episode 23
~14 min
Chapter XII · I
““What is that apathetic being doing?” she demanded, pushing the thick entangled locks from her wasted face.”
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Episode 24
~11 min
Chapter XII · II
““Ah! you are come, are you, Edgar Linton?” she said, with angry animation.”
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Episode 25
~12 min
Chapter XIII · I
“DEAR ELLEN, it begins,—I came last night to Wuthering Heights, and heard, for the first time, that Catherine has been, and is yet, very ill.”
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Episode 26
~9 min
Chapter XIII · II
““Gooid Lord!” he muttered, sitting down, and stroking his ribbed stockings from the knee to the ankle.”
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Episode 27
~11 min
Chapter XIV · I
“I must confess, that if I had been in the young lady’s place, I would, at least, have swept the hearth, and wiped the tables with a duster.”
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Episode 28
~6 min
Chapter XIV · II
““Put that down!” he interrupted, perceiving my intention to depart.”
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Episode 29
~9 min
Chapter XV · I
“She is, on the whole, a very fair narrator, and I don’t think I could improve her style.”
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Episode 30
~7 min
Chapter XV · II
“And,” added she musingly, “the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all.”
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Episode 31
~9 min
Chapter XVI
“To be sure, one might have doubted, after the wayward and impatient existence she had led, whether she merited a haven of peace at last.”
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Episode 32
~13 min
Chapter XVII · I
““Excuse me!” answered a familiar voice; “but I know Edgar is in bed, and I cannot stop myself.””
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Episode 33
~14 min
Chapter XVII · II
“His hair and clothes were whitened with snow, and his sharp cannibal teeth, revealed by cold and wrath, gleamed through the dark.”
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Episode 34
~8 min
Chapter XVII · III
““Why, guess!” he returned, dismounting, and slinging his bridle on a hook by the door.”
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Episode 35
~10 min
Chapter XVIII · I
“Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections.”
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Episode 36
~8 min
Chapter XVIII · II
““Now, get my horse,” she said, addressing her unknown kinsman as she would one of the stable-boys at the Grange.”
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Episode 37
~8 min
Chapter XIX
““Linton is just six months younger than I am,” she chattered, as we strolled leisurely over the swells and hollows of mossy turf, under shadow of the trees.”
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Episode 38
~11 min
Chapter XX
““He had business to keep him in the north,” I answered, “and your mother’s health required her to reside in the south.””
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Episode 39
~12 min
Chapter XXI · I
““That must be a good distance up,” I answered; “they don’t breed on the edge of the moor.””
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Episode 40
~12 min
Chapter XXI · II
““I don’t know,” she replied, casting a longing look to the door, and evidently eager to be active.”
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Episode 41
~8 min
Chapter XXI · III
““You’ll get nobody to take that, Catherine,” I said, “if you write it; and at present I shall put out your candle.””
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Episode 42
~12 min
Chapter XXII
““You mustn’t cry because papa has a cold; be thankful it is nothing worse.””
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Episode 43
~9 min
Chapter XXIII · I
““Oh, I hope you’ll die in a garret, starved to death!” said the boy, mistaking our approach for that of his negligent attendant.”
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Episode 44
~6 min
Chapter XXIII · II
““And to-morrow, Catherine, will you be here to-morrow?” asked young Heathcliff, holding her frock as she rose reluctantly.”
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Episode 46
~9 min
Chapter XXIV · II
“I heard a malignant, crackly laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering.”
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Episode 47
~7 min
Chapter XXV
“Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months’ end, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!”
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Episode 48
~8 min
Chapter XXVI
““Well, we’ll turn our horses’ heads round when we reach him,” answered my companion; “our excursion shall lie towards home.””
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Episode 50
~10 min
Chapter XXVII · II
““Papa wants us to be married,” he continued, after sipping some of the liquid.”
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Episode 51
~8 min
Chapter XXVIII · I
“On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step approached—lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the room.”
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Episode 52
~6 min
Chapter XXVIII · II
“Her father shall see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if that devil be killed on his own door-stones in trying to prevent it!”
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Episode 53
~11 min
Chapter XXIX
“There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference.”
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Episode 54
~12 min
Chapter XXX
“She thinks Catherine haughty, and does not like her, I can guess by her talk.”
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Episode 55
~11 min
Chapter XXXI
““You must tell her,” she continued, “that I would answer her letter, but I have no materials for writing: not even a book from which I might tear a leaf.””
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Episode 56
~9 min
Chapter XXXII · I
“In winter nothing more dreary, in summer nothing more divine, than those glens shut in by hills, and those bluff, bold swells of heath.”
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Episode 57
~12 min
Chapter XXXII · II
““I know why Hareton never speaks, when I am in the kitchen,” she exclaimed, on another occasion.”
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Episode 58
~10 min
Chapter XXXIII · I
““I’d forgotten they were Joseph’s,” answered Earnshaw, rather puzzled; “but I’ll tell him I did it.””
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Episode 59
~6 min
Chapter XXXIII · II
“It is far from being the case: I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.”
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Episode 60
~12 min
Chapter XXXIV · I
““No, I’m not hungry,” he answered, averting his head, and speaking rather contemptuously, as if he guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his good humour.”
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Episode 61
~10 min
Chapter XXXIV · II
““And supposing you persevered in your obstinate fast, and died by that means, and they refused to bury you in the precincts of the kirk?””
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Public-domain work (1847). Text: Project Gutenberg #768. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more