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1,118 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Gulliver stands up the next morning, he sees a beautiful landscape laid out in front of him, like a garden. None of the trees are taller than seven feet high, and all of the fields look like beds of flowers. Gulliver's panicking a bit because it's now been about two days since he last peed. Finally, he decides to ... | [
"CHAPTER II.",
"THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT, ATTENDED BY SEVERAL OF THE NOBILITY, COMES\n TO SEE THE AUTHOR IN HIS CONFINEMENT. THE EMPEROR'S PERSON AND\n HABIT DESCRIBED. LEARNED MEN APPOINTED TO TEACH THE AUTHOR THEIR\n LANGUAGE. HE GAINS FAVOR BY HIS MILD DISPOSITION. HIS POCKETS ARE\n SEARCHED, AN... |
1,119 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lilliputian court comes to like Gulliver thanks to his gentle behavior. Because the Emperor admires Gulliver so much, the Emperor orders his people to put on a couple of shows for Gulliver The main show is a kind of rope dancing, which is performed only by people who hold high office in Lilliput. In fact, in order ... | [
"CHAPTER III.",
"THE AUTHOR DIVERTS THE EMPEROR AND HIS NOBILITY OF BOTH SEXES IN A\n VERY UNCOMMON MANNER. THE DIVERSIONS OF THE COURT OF LILLIPUT\n DESCRIBED. THE AUTHOR HAS HIS LIBERTY GRANTED HIM UPON CERTAIN\n CONDITIONS.",
"My gentleness and good behavior had gained so far on the emperor and h... |
1,120 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Gulliver gets his freedom, the first thing he does is to ask the Emperor if he can go into Mildendo, the main city of Lilliput. The Emperor agrees, and Gulliver steps into the town. He walks through the main streets and visits the Emperor's palace. At this point, Gulliver spends some time describing the state of ... | [
"CHAPTER IV.",
"MILENDO, THE METROPOLIS OF LILLIPUT, DESCRIBED TOGETHER WITH THE\n EMPEROR'S PALACE. A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE AUTHOR AND A PRINCIPAL\n SECRETARY, CONCERNING THE AFFAIRS OF THAT EMPIRE. THE AUTHOR OFFERS\n TO SERVE THE EMPEROR IN HIS WARS.",
"The first request I made, after I had ob... |
1,121 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Blefuscu is divided from Lilliput by a small channel about 800 yards wide - not even half a mile. Gulliver plans to capture the whole Blefuscu fleet of ships, of which there are about 50. He asks the Emperor for bars of iron and thick ropes. He twists the bars of iron into 50 separate hooks, which he attaches to length... | [
"CHAPTER V.",
"THE AUTHOR, BY AN EXTRAORDINARY STRATAGEM, PREVENTS AN INVASION. A\n HIGH TITLE OF HONOR IS CONFERRED UPON HIM. AMBASSADORS ARRIVE FROM\n THE EMPEROR OF BLEFUSCU, AND SUE FOR PEACE. THE EMPRESS'S APARTMENT\n ON FIRE, BY ACCIDENT; THE AUTHOR INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING THE REST OF\n THE P... |
1,122 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver gives us some more details of Lilliput: first, all of the animals, trees, and buildings are proportional to the six-inch Lilliputians. In other words, everything on the island is equally tiny. They do not read left to right , right to left , nor up and down . Instead, they write diagonally across the page. The... | [
"CHAPTER VI.",
"OF THE INHABITANTS OF LILLIPUT; THEIR LEARNING, LAWS, AND CUSTOMS;\n THE MANNER OF EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN. THE AUTHOR'S WAY OF LIVING\n IN THAT COUNTRY.",
"Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a\nparticular treatise, yet, in the meantime, I am content to gratify... |
1,123 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For 2 months before Gulliver leaves Lilliput, there has been a plot building against him. The thing is, Gulliver has never had any personal experience of courts in his own country, but he has read about them and all their backbiting and infighting. Still, Gulliver thought that the high morals of the Lilliputians would ... | [
"CHAPTER VII.",
"THE AUTHOR, BEING INFORMED OF A DESIGN TO ACCUSE HIM OF HIGH\n TREASON, MAKES HIS ESCAPE TO BLEFUSCU. HIS RECEPTION THERE.",
"Before I proceed to give an account of my leaving this kingdom, it may\nbe proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for\ntwo months forming a... |
1,124 | 17157_part_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three days after arriving in Blefuscu, Gulliver spots a real boat overturned in the shallows off the coast of the island. Gulliver assumes that a storm has pulled it free from the ship he arrived on, the Antelope. He gets 2,000 Blefuscudians to help him turn the boat right side up. It looks undamaged. Gulliver asks the... | [
"CHAPTER VIII.",
"THE AUTHOR, BY A LUCKY ACCIDENT, FINDS MEANS TO LEAVE BLEFUSCU, AND\n AFTER SOME DIFFICULTIES, RETURNS SAFE TO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY.",
"Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that lo... |
1,117 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver heads out to sea again on June 20, 1702. His ship is called the Adventure, with Captain John Nicholas. About a year passes as they jump around the world, but finally the Adventure hits a storm that leaves them totally confused about where they are. On June 17, 1703, the sailors of the Adventure spot land and r... | [
"PART II. A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG_. CHAPTER I.",
"A GREAT STORM DESCRIBED; THE LONG-BOAT SENT TO FETCH WATER; THE\n AUTHOR GOES WITH IT TO DISCOVER THE COUNTRY. HE IS LEFT ON SHORE,\n IS SEIZED BY ONE OF THE NATIVES, AND CARRIED TO A FARMER'S HOUSE.\n HIS RECEPTION, WITH SEVERAL ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENE... |
1,125 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver's mistress has a 9-year old daughter who sews well and is generally really smart. She makes Gulliver some clothes and also starts teaching him the Brobdingnagian language. Gulliver calls this girl Glumdalclitch, his little nurse, and she names him Grildrig. Rumors are spreading through the whole area that the ... | [
"CHAPTER II.",
"A DESCRIPTION OF THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. THE AUTHOR CARRIED TO A\n MARKET-TOWN, AND THEN TO THE METROPOLIS. THE PARTICULARS OF THIS\n JOURNEY.",
"My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of toward parts\nfor her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her\n... |
1,126 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All of this performing is having a terrible effect on Gulliver's health, and his master can see that he's getting sick. Gulliver's master resolves to make as much money as he can off Gulliver before Gulliver dies. One day, the Queen of Brobdingnag arrives at his apartment and offers to buy Gulliver for a huge sum of go... | [
"CHAPTER III.",
"THE AUTHOR SENT FOR TO COURT. THE QUEEN BUYS HIM OF HIS MASTER THE\n FARMER, AND PRESENTS HIM TO THE KING. HE DISPUTES WITH HIS\n MAJESTY'S GREAT SCHOLARS. AN APARTMENT AT COURT PROVIDED FOR THE\n AUTHOR. HE IS IN HIGH FAVOR WITH THE QUEEN. HE STANDS UP FOR THE\n HONOR OF HIS OWN ... |
1,127 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The island is 6,000 miles long and between 3,000 and 5,000 miles wide. It's a whole continent right smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, between California and Japan. The kingdom of Brobdingnag sits at the southern end of the island, surrounded on three sides by ocean and on one side by impassable mountains. T... | [
"CHAPTER IV.",
"THE COUNTRY DESCRIBED. A PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING MODERN MAPS. THE\n KING'S PALACE, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE METROPOLIS. THE AUTHOR'S WAY\n OF TRAVELLING. THE CHIEF TEMPLE DESCRIBED.",
"I now intend to give the reader a short description of this country, as\nfar as I travelled in it, which... |
1,128 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver's life in Brobdingnag is pretty happy except that his tiny size makes him so vulnerable to danger.When Gulliver is walking under an apple tree, the Queen's dwarf shakes the tree, causing about 12 apples to drop. These apples almost brain Gulliver.Gulliver is sitting on a plot of grass when a sudden hail shower... | [
"CHAPTER V.",
"SEVERAL ADVENTURES THAT HAPPENED TO THE AUTHOR. THE AUTHOR SHOWS\n HIS SKILL IN NAVIGATION.",
"I should have lived happily enough in that country, if my littleness had\nnot exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents, some of\nwhich I shall venture to relate. Glumdalclitch ofte... |
1,129 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once or twice a week, Gulliver attends the King's levee, a kind of reception held every morning when a King gets out of bed. He collects the hairs that drop from the King's twice-weekly shave to make himself a comb. Gulliver also uses some of the Queen's hair from her brush to make a set of chairs that the Queen keeps ... | [
"CHAPTER VI.",
"SEVERAL CONTRIVANCES OF THE AUTHOR TO PLEASE THE KING AND QUEEN. HE\n SHOWS HIS SKILL IN MUSIC. THE KING INQUIRES INTO THE STATE OF\n ENGLAND, WHICH THE AUTHOR RELATES TO HIM. THE KING'S OBSERVATIONS\n THEREON.",
"I used to attend the king's levee[73] once or twice a week, and had\no... |
1,130 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver sits and listens to the King's intense criticism of England. He keeps quiet because it would be ungrateful of him to contradict the King, his benefactor. He also reassures us that we should forgive the Brobdingnagian King for his criticism of England - how could the King know better, when his own country is so... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH\n ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH IS REJECTED. THE KING'S GREAT\n IGNORANCE IN POLITICS. THE LEARNING OF THAT COUNTRY VERY IMPERFECT\n AND CONFINED. THE LAWS, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, AND PARTIES IN THE\n STATE.",
"Nothing b... |
1,131 | 17157_part_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver really wants to go home. He has now spent two years in Brobdingnag, and though his life has been comfortable, he wants to return to a place where he doesn't have to worry about being stomped to death by a puppy. He and Glumdalclitch are going on a tour of the south coast of the kingdom with the Brobdingnagian ... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"THE KING AND QUEEN MAKE A PROGRESS[83] TO THE FRONTIERS. THE AUTHOR\n ATTENDS THEM. THE MANNER IN WHICH HE LEAVES THE COUNTRY VERY\n PARTICULARLY RELATED. HE RETURNS TO ENGLAND.",
"I had always a strong impulse that I should sometime recover my liberty,\nthough it was impossible to conj... |
1,116 | 17157_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On this voyage, Gulliver goes to the sea as a surgeon on the merchant ship, Antelope. The ship is destroyed during a heavy windstorm, and Gulliver, the only survivor, swims to a nearby island, Lilliput. Being nearly exhausted from the ordeal, he falls asleep. Upon awakening, he finds that the island's inhabitants, who ... | [
"PART I. _A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT_. CHAPTER I.",
"THE AUTHOR GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY: HIS FIRST\n INDUCEMENTS TO TRAVEL. HE IS SHIPWRECKED, AND SWIMS FOR HIS LIFE;\n GETS SAFE ASHORE IN THE COUNTRY OF LILLIPUT; IS MADE A PRISONER,\n AND CARRIED UP THE COUNTRY.",
"My father had a small ... |
1,118 | 17157_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, the Imperial Majesty and Gulliver carry on a conversation as best they can. After the Emperor's visit, six Lilliputians shoot arrows at Gulliver. Gulliver retaliates by pretending to eat the little archers and then releases them. This clemency, and Gulliver's cooperation, so impress the Imperial Counci... | [
"CHAPTER II.",
"THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT, ATTENDED BY SEVERAL OF THE NOBILITY, COMES\n TO SEE THE AUTHOR IN HIS CONFINEMENT. THE EMPEROR'S PERSON AND\n HABIT DESCRIBED. LEARNED MEN APPOINTED TO TEACH THE AUTHOR THEIR\n LANGUAGE. HE GAINS FAVOR BY HIS MILD DISPOSITION. HIS POCKETS ARE\n SEARCHED, AN... |
1,119 | 17157_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lilliputian emperor is pleased that Gulliver is friendly and cooperative, so he rewards him with some court diversions. The diversions, however, prove to be quite different than one might expect. It is the Lilliputian court custom that men seeking political office demonstrate their agility in rope dancing, among ot... | [
"CHAPTER III.",
"THE AUTHOR DIVERTS THE EMPEROR AND HIS NOBILITY OF BOTH SEXES IN A\n VERY UNCOMMON MANNER. THE DIVERSIONS OF THE COURT OF LILLIPUT\n DESCRIBED. THE AUTHOR HAS HIS LIBERTY GRANTED HIM UPON CERTAIN\n CONDITIONS.",
"My gentleness and good behavior had gained so far on the emperor and h... |
1,120 | 17157_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Gulliver's visit to the Emperor's palace at Mildendo, Reldresal, Lilliput's Principal Secretary of Private Affairs, pays a visit to Gulliver and explains the faction quarrels between the High Heel Party and the Low Heel Party. The conflict, he says, started over a religious question: At which end should the faith... | [
"CHAPTER IV.",
"MILENDO, THE METROPOLIS OF LILLIPUT, DESCRIBED TOGETHER WITH THE\n EMPEROR'S PALACE. A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE AUTHOR AND A PRINCIPAL\n SECRETARY, CONCERNING THE AFFAIRS OF THAT EMPIRE. THE AUTHOR OFFERS\n TO SERVE THE EMPEROR IN HIS WARS.",
"The first request I made, after I had ob... |
1,121 | 17157_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver saves Lilliput from a Blefuscudian invasion by dragging the Blefuscudian ships to Lilliput. In gratitude, the Lilliputian emperor rewards Gulliver with the title Nardac. Gulliver is pleased with his new title, but he is not the Emperor's dupe. He rejects a plan to destroy Blefuscu completely and argues for a r... | [
"CHAPTER V.",
"THE AUTHOR, BY AN EXTRAORDINARY STRATAGEM, PREVENTS AN INVASION. A\n HIGH TITLE OF HONOR IS CONFERRED UPON HIM. AMBASSADORS ARRIVE FROM\n THE EMPEROR OF BLEFUSCU, AND SUE FOR PEACE. THE EMPRESS'S APARTMENT\n ON FIRE, BY ACCIDENT; THE AUTHOR INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING THE REST OF\n THE P... |
1,122 | 17157_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver provides the reader with information regarding Lilliputian culture and the personal treatment that he receives from the Lilliputians. Regarding the Lilliputian system of laws, Gulliver says that treason is severely punished, which is not particularly surprising, but other laws are. These laws punish an unsucce... | [
"CHAPTER VI.",
"OF THE INHABITANTS OF LILLIPUT; THEIR LEARNING, LAWS, AND CUSTOMS;\n THE MANNER OF EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN. THE AUTHOR'S WAY OF LIVING\n IN THAT COUNTRY.",
"Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a\nparticular treatise, yet, in the meantime, I am content to gratify... |
1,123 | 17157_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver learns that Flimnap, Skyresh Bolgolam, and others have approved articles of treason against him. His crimes include putting out the fire in the palace, refusing to devastate Blefuscu, speaking to the peace embassy from Blefuscu, and preparing to take advantage of the Emperor's permission to visit Blefuscu. The... | [
"CHAPTER VII.",
"THE AUTHOR, BEING INFORMED OF A DESIGN TO ACCUSE HIM OF HIGH\n TREASON, MAKES HIS ESCAPE TO BLEFUSCU. HIS RECEPTION THERE.",
"Before I proceed to give an account of my leaving this kingdom, it may\nbe proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for\ntwo months forming a... |
1,124 | 17157_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few days after his arrival at Blefuscu, Gulliver sees a large overturned ship floating in the bay and hauls it to port. While he is restoring the ship for his return home, a Lilliputian envoy presents a note demanding that Gulliver be returned as a traitor. The Blefuscudian emperor refuses to do so, hoping that Gulli... | [
"CHAPTER VIII.",
"THE AUTHOR, BY A LUCKY ACCIDENT, FINDS MEANS TO LEAVE BLEFUSCU, AND\n AFTER SOME DIFFICULTIES, RETURNS SAFE TO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY.",
"Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that lo... |
1,117 | 17157_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver is home for only two months when he and the crew of the Adventure set sail for Surat. A storm blows their ship far off course. When they finally sight land, the captain sends a crew, including Gulliver, to explore. While the crew looks for drinking water, Gulliver explores another part of the island. The men a... | [
"PART II. A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG_. CHAPTER I.",
"A GREAT STORM DESCRIBED; THE LONG-BOAT SENT TO FETCH WATER; THE\n AUTHOR GOES WITH IT TO DISCOVER THE COUNTRY. HE IS LEFT ON SHORE,\n IS SEIZED BY ONE OF THE NATIVES, AND CARRIED TO A FARMER'S HOUSE.\n HIS RECEPTION, WITH SEVERAL ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENE... |
1,125 | 17157_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Of all the family, the farmer's daughter is the most fascinated by Gulliver. He seems like a walking, talking doll to her. She enjoys caring for him and even gives him a new name: Grildrig. She takes such good care of Gulliver that he calls her his glumdalclitch . News of Gulliver's living at the farmer's house spreads... | [
"CHAPTER II.",
"A DESCRIPTION OF THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. THE AUTHOR CARRIED TO A\n MARKET-TOWN, AND THEN TO THE METROPOLIS. THE PARTICULARS OF THIS\n JOURNEY.",
"My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of toward parts\nfor her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her\n... |
1,126 | 17157_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Queen asks for an audience with the farmer and Gulliver, and Gulliver performs admirably and respectfully for her. The Queen, being attracted to the novelty of this tiny man, buys Gulliver from the farmer. Included in this arrangement is the farmer's daughter, Glumdalclitch, who becomes a member of the Queen's cour... | [
"CHAPTER III.",
"THE AUTHOR SENT FOR TO COURT. THE QUEEN BUYS HIM OF HIS MASTER THE\n FARMER, AND PRESENTS HIM TO THE KING. HE DISPUTES WITH HIS\n MAJESTY'S GREAT SCHOLARS. AN APARTMENT AT COURT PROVIDED FOR THE\n AUTHOR. HE IS IN HIGH FAVOR WITH THE QUEEN. HE STANDS UP FOR THE\n HONOR OF HIS OWN ... |
1,127 | 17157_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the King and Queen go traveling about the country, they decide to take Gulliver along. Gulliver describes the island, the sea around the island, the city of Lorbrulgrud, the King's palace, his method of travel on the island, several of the island's inhabitants, and some of the sights to see on the island. In descr... | [
"CHAPTER IV.",
"THE COUNTRY DESCRIBED. A PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING MODERN MAPS. THE\n KING'S PALACE, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE METROPOLIS. THE AUTHOR'S WAY\n OF TRAVELLING. THE CHIEF TEMPLE DESCRIBED.",
"I now intend to give the reader a short description of this country, as\nfar as I travelled in it, which... |
1,128 | 17157_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver's mishaps continue. The Queen's dwarf drops barrel-sized apples on him; hailstones as big as tennis balls batter and bruise him; a bird of prey nearly grabs him; and a spaniel picks him up in his mouth and carries him to the royal gardener. Gulliver is insulted to be coddled and played with by the maids of hon... | [
"CHAPTER V.",
"SEVERAL ADVENTURES THAT HAPPENED TO THE AUTHOR. THE AUTHOR SHOWS\n HIS SKILL IN NAVIGATION.",
"I should have lived happily enough in that country, if my littleness had\nnot exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents, some of\nwhich I shall venture to relate. Glumdalclitch ofte... |
1,129 | 17157_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver entertains himself and demonstrates his ingenuity by using the King's beard stubble to make a comb and by using strands of the Queen's hair to make several chairs and a purse. In addition, Gulliver plays the spinet for the King and Queen by using sticks formed as cudgels to bang on the keys as he runs up and d... | [
"CHAPTER VI.",
"SEVERAL CONTRIVANCES OF THE AUTHOR TO PLEASE THE KING AND QUEEN. HE\n SHOWS HIS SKILL IN MUSIC. THE KING INQUIRES INTO THE STATE OF\n ENGLAND, WHICH THE AUTHOR RELATES TO HIM. THE KING'S OBSERVATIONS\n THEREON.",
"I used to attend the king's levee[73] once or twice a week, and had\no... |
1,130 | 17157_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver decides that the King's lack of enthusiasm for England springs from his ignorance of the country. To remedy this, Gulliver offers to teach the King about England's magnificence. The first lesson concerns one of England's most valuable assets: gunpowder. Describing its effects graphically and at great length, G... | [
"CHAPTER VII",
"THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH\n ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH IS REJECTED. THE KING'S GREAT\n IGNORANCE IN POLITICS. THE LEARNING OF THAT COUNTRY VERY IMPERFECT\n AND CONFINED. THE LAWS, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, AND PARTIES IN THE\n STATE.",
"Nothing b... |
1,131 | 17157_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Gulliver spends two years in Brobdingnag, but he is not happy despite the royal family's pampering. He is afraid that he will never escape and will turn into a sort of domestic, albeit royal, pet. Escape seems impossible; chance, however, intervenes: On a trip to the seashore, an eagle swoops down, snatches up the box ... | [
"CHAPTER VIII",
"THE KING AND QUEEN MAKE A PROGRESS[83] TO THE FRONTIERS. THE AUTHOR\n ATTENDS THEM. THE MANNER IN WHICH HE LEAVES THE COUNTRY VERY\n PARTICULARLY RELATED. HE RETURNS TO ENGLAND.",
"I had always a strong impulse that I should sometime recover my liberty,\nthough it was impossible to conj... |
1,132 | 768_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is 1801, and the narrator, Mr. Lockwood, relates how he has just returned from a visit to his new landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. Lockwood, a self-described misanthropist, is renting Thrushcross Grange in an effort to get away from society following a failure at love. He had fallen in love with a "real goddess" , but when... | [
"1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ... |
1,133 | 768_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Annoyed by the housework being done in the Grange, Lockwood pays a second visit to Wuthering Heights, arriving there just as snow begins to fall. The weather is cold, the ground is frozen, and his reception matches the bleak unfriendliness of the moors. After yelling at the old servant Joseph to open the door, he is fi... | [
"Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it\nby my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering\nHeights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.--I dine between twelve\nand one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture\nalong with the house, ... |
1,134 | 768_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Zillah quietly shows Lockwood to a chamber which, she says, Heathcliff does not like to be occupied. She doesn't know why, having only lived there for a few years. Left alone, Lockwood notices the names "Catherine Earnshaw," "Catherine Linton," and "Catherine Heathcliff" scrawled over the window ledge. He leafs through... | [
"While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ... |
1,135 | 768_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood is bored and a little weak after his adventures, so he asks his housekeeper, Ellen Dean, to tell him about Heathcliff and the old families of the area. She says Heathcliff is very rich and a miser, though he has no family, since his son is dead. The girl living at Wuthering Heights was the daughter of Ellen's ... | [
"What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself\nindependent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at\nlength, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable--I,\nweak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and\nsolitude, was finally compell... |
1,136 | 768_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Earnshaw grew old and sick, and with his illness he became irritable and somewhat obsessed with the idea that people disliked his favorite, Heathcliff. Heathcliff was spoiled to keep Earnshaw happy, and Hindley, who became more and more bitter about the situation, was sent away to college. Joseph, already "the wearisom... | [
"In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and\nhealthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to\nthe chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him;\nand suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. This\nwas especially to be re... |
1,137 | 768_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hindley returns home, unexpectedly bringing his wife, a flighty woman with a strange fear of death and symptoms of consumption. Hindley also brought home new manners and rules, and informed the servants that they would have to live in inferior quarters. Most importantly, he treated Heathcliff as a servant, stopping his... | [
"Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and--a thing that amazed us, and\nset the neighbours gossiping right and left--he brought a wife with him.\nWhat she was, and where she was born, he never informed us: probably, she\nhad neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have\nkept the union from hi... |
1,138 | 768_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen resumes the narrative. Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks, until Christmas. When she returned home she had been transformed into a young lady with that role's attending restrictions: she could no longer kiss Ellen without worrying about getting flour on her dress. She hurt Heathcliff's feelings by ... | [
"Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that\ntime her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved. The\nmistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of\nreform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and\nflattery, which she took readily;... |
1,139 | 768_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hindley's wife Frances gave birth to a child, Hareton, but did not survive long afterwards: she had consumption. Despite the doctor's warnings, Hindley persisted in believing that she would recover, and she seemed to think so too, always saying she felt better, but she died a few weeks after Hareton's birth. Ellen was ... | [
"On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.",
"... |
1,140 | 768_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hindley came in raging drunk and swearing, and caught Ellen in the act of trying to hide Hareton in a cupboard for his safety. Hindley threatened to make Nelly swallow a carving knife, and even tried to force it between her teeth, but she bravely said she'd rather be shot, and spat it out. Then he took up Hareton and s... | [
"He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act\nof stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed\nwith a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness\nor his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and\nkissed to death, and ... |
1,141 | 768_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Catherine got along surprisingly well with her husband and Isabella, mostly because they never opposed her. She had "seasons of gloom and silence" though. Edgar took these for the results of her serious illness. When they had been married almost a year, Heathcliff came back. Nelly was outside that evening and he asked ... | [
"A charming introduction to a hermit's life! Four weeks' torture,\ntossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies,\nand impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And oh, this dearth\nof the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of\nKenneth that I need not ... |
1,142 | 768_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly went to visit Wuthering Heights to see how Hindley and Hareton were doing. She saw little Hareton outside, but he didn't recognize her as his former nurse, so he threw a rock at her and cursed. She found that his father had taught him how to curse, and that Hareton liked Heathcliff because he defended Hareton fro... | [
"Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of... |
1,143 | 768_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After three days in which Catherine stayed alone in her room, Edgar sat in the library, and Isabella moped in the garden, Catherine called Nelly for some food and water because she thought she was dying. She ate some toast, and was indignant to hear that Edgar wasn't frantic about her. She said: "How strange. I thought... | [
"While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and\nalmost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that\nhe never opened--wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation\nthat Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to\nask pardon, and seek a r... |
1,144 | 768_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the next two months Catherine "encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated a brain fever" , but it became clear that she would never really recover. She was pregnant. Heathcliff and Isabella returned to Wuthering Heights, and Isabella wrote Edgar an apology and a plea for forgiveness, to which ... | [
"For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan... |
1,145 | 768_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen, distressed by Edgar's refusal to console Isabella, went to visit her at Wuthering Heights. She told Isabella and Heathcliff that Catherine would "never be what she was" and that Heathcliff should not bother her anymore. Heathcliff asserted that he would not leave her to Edgar's lukewarm care, and that she loved ... | [
"As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed\nhim that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter\nexpressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire\nto see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as\npossible, some token of forgi... |
1,146 | 768_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Sunday after Ellen's visit to Wuthering Heights, while most people were at church, she gave Catherine Heathcliff's letter. Catherine was changed by her sickness: she was beautiful in an unearthly way and her eyes "appeared always to gaze beyond, and far beyond". Ellen had left the door open, so Heathcliff walked in... | [
"Another week over--and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I\nhave now heard all my neighbour's history, at different sittings, as the\nhousekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I'll\ncontinue it in her own words, only a little condensed. She is, on the\nwhole, a very fair narrator,... |
1,147 | 768_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Around midnight, Catherine gave birth to a daughter. Catherine Earnshaw died two hours later without recovering consciousness. No one cared for the infant at first, and Ellen wished it had been a boy: with no son, Edgar's heir was Isabella, Heathcliff's wife. Catherine's corpse looked peaceful and beautiful, and Ellen ... | [
"About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d... |
1,148 | 768_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, while Ellen was rocking baby Catherine, Isabella came in laughing giddily. Isabella was pale, her face was cut, and her thin silk dress was torn by briars. She asked Ellen to call a carriage for the nearest town, Gimmerton, since she was escaping from her husband, and to have a maid get some clothes ready... | [
"That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening\nthe weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought\nrain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly\nimagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and\ncrocuses were hidden under wi... |
1,149 | 768_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the next twelve years, Cathy Linton grew up to be "the most winning thing that ever brought sunshine into a desolate house". She was fair like a Linton, except for her mother's dark eyes. High-spirited but gentle, she seemed to combine the good qualities of both the Lintons and the Earnshaws, though she was a little... | [
"The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like... |
1,150 | 768_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Isabella died, and Edgar returned home with his half-orphaned nephew, Linton, a "pale, delicate, effeminate boy" with a "sickly peevishness" in his appearance. Cathy was excited to see her cousin, and took to babying him when she saw that he was sickly and childish. That very evening, Joseph came to demand the child on... | [
"A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return.\nIsabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter,\nand arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.\nCatherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and\nindulged most sanguine a... |
1,151 | 768_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Ellen woke Linton early and took him over to Wuthering Heights, promising dishonestly that it was only for a little while. Linton was surprised to hear he had a father, since Isabella had never spoken of Heathcliff. When they arrived, Heathcliff and Joseph expressed their contempt for the delicate boy... | [
"To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton\ncommissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine's pony; and,\nsaid he--'As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or\nbad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot\nassociate with him hereafter, and... |
1,152 | 768_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cathy missed her cousin when she woke up that morning, but time made her forget him. Linton grew up to be a selfish and disagreeable boy, continually complaining about his health. On Cathy's sixteenth birthday she and Ellen went out on the moors, and strayed onto Heathcliff's land, where he found them. He invited them ... | [
"We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n... |
1,153 | 768_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That fall, Edgar caught a cold that confined him to the house all winter. Cathy grew sadder after the end of her little romance, and told Ellen that she was afraid of being alone after Ellen and her father die. Taking a walk, Cathy ended up briefly stranded outside of the wall of the park, when Heathcliff rode by. He t... | [
"Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the\nharvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.\nMr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers;\nat the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the\nevening happening to be ... |
1,154 | 768_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Wuthering Heights, Cathy and Ellen heard "a peevish voice" calling Joseph for more hot coals for the fire. Following the sound of the voice, they discovered Linton, who greeted them rather ungraciously: "No don't kiss me. It takes my breath dear me. He complained that writing to Cathy had been very tiring, and that ... | [
"The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half\ndrizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path--gurgling from the\nuplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly\nthe humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things. We\nentered the farm-house by the kitchen... |
1,155 | 768_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three weeks later, Ellen was much better, and discovered Cathy's evening visits to Wuthering Heights. Cathy told her what had happened: Cathy bribed a servant with her books to take care of saddling her pony and keep her escapades secret. On her second visit, she and Linton had an argument about the best way of spendin... | [
"At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im... |
1,156 | 768_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 25 | [
"'These things happened last winter, sir,' said Mrs. Dean; 'hardly more\nthan a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months'\nend, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!\nYet, who knows how long you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest\nalways contented, living... |
1,157 | 768_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Ellen and Cathy rode to meet Linton, they had to go quite close to Wuthering Heights to find him. He was evidently very ill, though he claimed to be better: "his large blue eyes wandered timidly over her; the hollowness round them, transforming to haggard wildness, the languid expression they once possessed". Lint... | [
"Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his\nassent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride\nto join her cousin. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but\nwith a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of\nmeeting had been fixed at t... |
1,158 | 768_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A week later, Ellen and Cathy were to visit Linton again. Edgar was much sicker, and Cathy didn't want to leave him, but he encouraged her relationship with Linton, hoping to ensure his daughter's welfare thereby. Linton "received us with greater animation on this occasion; not the animation of high spirits though, nor... | [
"Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre... |
1,159 | 768_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the fifth afternoon of the captivity, Zillah released Ellen, explaining that Heathcliff said she could go home and that Cathy would follow in time to attend her father's funeral. Edgar was not dead yet, but soon would be. Ellen asked Linton where Catherine was, and he answered that she was shut upstairs, that they w... | [
"On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step\napproached--lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the\nroom. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk\nbonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.",
"'Eh, dear! Mrs. Dean!' she exclaimed. 'Well! t... |
1,160 | 768_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Heathcliff came to the Grange to fetch Catherine to Wuthering Heights to take care of Linton, who was dying in terror of his father. When Ellen begged him to allow Cathy and Linton to live at the Grange, Heathcliff explained that he wanted to get a tenant for the estate. Catherine agreed to go because Linton was all sh... | [
"The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.",
"We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra... |
1,161 | 768_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellen has now more or less reached the present time in her narrative, and tells Lockwood what Zillah told her about Cathy's reception at Wuthering Heights. Cathy spent all her time in Linton's room, and when she came out she asked Heathcliff to call a doctor, because Linton was very sick. Heathcliff replied: "We know t... | [
"I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she\nleft: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her,\nand wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was 'thrang,' and the\nmaster was not in. Zillah has told me something of the way they go on,\notherwise I should hardly kno... |
1,162 | 768_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood goes to Wuthering Heights to see Heathcliff and tell him he is moving to London and thus doesn't want to stay at the Grange any longer. He notices that Hareton is "as handsome a rustic as need be seen". He gives Cathy a note from Ellen. Initially, Cathy thinks it is from Lockwood and rejects it, but when Lockw... | [
"Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I\nproposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to\nher young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not\nconscious of anything odd in her request. The front door stood open, but\nthe jealous gate was fastened,... |
1,163 | 768_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the fall of 1802, later that year, Lockwood returns to the Grange because he is passing through the area on a hunting trip. He finds the Grange more or less empty: Ellen is now at Wuthering Heights, and an old woman had replaced her. Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights to see what has changed. He notices flowers growi... | [
"1802.--This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in\nthe north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within\nfifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was\nholding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green\noats, newly reaped, pass... |
1,164 | 768_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning Ellen found Catherine with Hareton in the garden, planning a flower garden in the middle of Joseph's cherished currant bushes. She warned them that they would be punished for destroying the bushes, but Hareton promised to take the blame. At tea, Cathy was careful not to talk to Hareton too much, but sh... | [
"On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p... |
1,165 | 768_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the next few days Heathcliff all but stopped eating, and spent the nights walking outside. Catherine, happily working on her garden, came across him and was surprised to see him looking "very much excited, and wild, and glad". Ellen urged him to eat, and indeed at dinner he took a heaping plate, but abruptly lost in... | [
"For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at\nmeals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He\nhad an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing\nrather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed\nsufficient sustenance for hi... |
1,132 | 768_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wuthering Heights begins with Lockwood reflecting upon a recent first visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, "a capital fellow" with whom Lockwood anticipates he has a lot in common. He's hoping they will hang out a lot because there's not much to do out on the moors, where the story is set. First, it's important to no... | [
"1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ... |
1,133 | 768_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood ventures back through "heath and mud" for another visit to Wuthering Heights. The gate is locked, so he jumps over it, only to find the front door locked too. He is clearly not one to take no for an answer, so he knocks until Joseph yells at him through the door. Standing in the snow, Lockwood finally gets the... | [
"Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it\nby my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering\nHeights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.--I dine between twelve\nand one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture\nalong with the house, ... |
1,134 | 768_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood is ushered upstairs to a bedroom and warned that Heathcliff would not be happy if he found out anyone was sleeping there. The bed is a curious structure, with sliding panels and windows. Inside are a bunch of old books and a ledge with names scribbled on it: Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Cather... | [
"While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ... |
1,135 | 768_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet Mrs. Dean, the diehard housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange. When Lockwood finds out she had been there for eighteen years, he lures her into providing gossip about Heathcliff and his bad-tempered housemates. She is only too willing to tell him the story, and she becomes our new narrator. Mrs. Dean lets us know so... | [
"What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself\nindependent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at\nlength, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable--I,\nweak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and\nsolitude, was finally compell... |
1,136 | 768_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Mr. Earnshaw gets older , he becomes more and more protective of Heathcliff. His preferential treatment doesn't help the young boy one bit. Thankfully, Hindley goes off to college. Meanwhile, Catherine is growing up into a little troublemaker herself, but she's still sweet and pretty, and an Earnshaw, so she gets aw... | [
"In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and\nhealthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to\nthe chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him;\nand suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. This\nwas especially to be re... |
1,137 | 768_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hindley comes home from college for the funeral, which is bad news, because now he's master of the house. On top of that, he has a wife, Frances, who is ready to help him run the show. Mrs. Dean thinks the wife's a silly nitwit, but her suspicious coughing lets us know she probably won't be around for long anyway. Now ... | [
"Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and--a thing that amazed us, and\nset the neighbours gossiping right and left--he brought a wife with him.\nWhat she was, and where she was born, he never informed us: probably, she\nhad neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have\nkept the union from hi... |
1,138 | 768_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Five weeks later, Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights, and you can bet that was a long five weeks for Heathcliff. Without her around, Heathcliff was neglected and abused even more than usual. Catherine has changed a lot during her stay at Thrushcross Grange. No longer the tomboyish wild child, she is composed and gr... | [
"Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that\ntime her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved. The\nmistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of\nreform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and\nflattery, which she took readily;... |
1,139 | 768_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frances gives birth to Hareton, the last of the Earnshaw line. Sick from consumption, Frances dies in childbirth. Nelly must now raise the baby, as Hindley turns into a cursing, raving mess. "The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long" , Nelly reports, so only she and Joseph remain with the family... | [
"On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.",
"... |
1,140 | 768_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hindley comes home in a drunk and violent state. When Nelly Dean tries to shield Hareton from his father's wrath, Hindley puts a knife in her mouth. Hindley drops Hareton from the top of the stairs and Heathcliff catches him. Though he desires nothing more than to ruin Hindley, Heathcliff rescues the child on instinct.... | [
"He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act\nof stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed\nwith a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness\nor his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and\nkissed to death, and ... |
1,141 | 768_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood returns to the story, complaining about his continued illness. He can't wait to hear what happened to Heathcliff and is full of speculation. Nelly informs him: "I stated before that I didn't know how he gained his money; neither am I aware of the means he took to raise his mind from the savage ignorance into w... | [
"A charming introduction to a hermit's life! Four weeks' torture,\ntossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies,\nand impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And oh, this dearth\nof the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of\nKenneth that I need not ... |
1,142 | 768_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly Dean is overwhelmed by a feeling of dread one day while out for a walk. Fearing something awful is happening at Wuthering Heightsparticularly to little Haretonshe heads up to the house. Young Hareton has become a cursing, violent young boy. Living with "Devil daddy," as he calls Hindley, he is a pure product of h... | [
"Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of... |
1,143 | 768_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For several days, Isabella mopes around, Catherine pouts in her room, and Edgar worries about his wife. Catherine believes she is dying and is infuriated when Nelly Dean tells her that Edgar has been reading contentedly in the library, in "philosophical resignation" . Catherine actually does get sick and, in a feverish... | [
"While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and\nalmost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that\nhe never opened--wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation\nthat Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to\nask pardon, and seek a r... |
1,144 | 768_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Catherine's brain fever worsens, but under Edgar's close care, she recovers. Well, almost. She's pregnant. In the meantime, Isabella has sent a letter to Edgar announcing her marriage to Heathcliff. He doesn't reply. Two weeks later, she writes to Nelly announcing that she is living up at the Heights. She also has a fe... | [
"For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan... |
1,145 | 768_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly resumes the narrative. Edgar tells Nelly he will have nothing to do with Isabella now that she has married "the villain." Nelly decides to go up to the Heights herself to check on Isabella. The house is a shambles, and Isabella is making no effort to keep up her surroundings or her own appearance. Heathcliff, how... | [
"As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed\nhim that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter\nexpressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire\nto see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as\npossible, some token of forgi... |
1,146 | 768_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood has heard the whole story now and decides to tell a condensed version. Several days go by, and Nelly finally gathers the courage to inform Catherine of Heathcliff's desired visit. Catherine is still wrecked from being sick and just sits and stares out of the open window. Heathcliff marches right into Catherine... | [
"Another week over--and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I\nhave now heard all my neighbour's history, at different sittings, as the\nhousekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I'll\ncontinue it in her own words, only a little condensed. She is, on the\nwhole, a very fair narrator,... |
1,147 | 768_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night little Catherine is born, two months premature, and her mother dies in childbirth. Edgar begins mourning. On top of the whole mess, he has no heir . Nelly goes out to the garden to break the news to Heathcliff, but he already knows. Still, he begs for all of the grisly details and, of course, wants to know i... | [
"About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d... |
1,148 | 768_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly tends to the new baby while Edgar keeps to his room. Isabella shows up, having run all the way from Wuthering Heights in the snow. Nelly tends to Isabella's cuts and bruises. Isabella throws her wedding ring into the fire, though it is clear that she would go back to Heathcliff if he showed even the slightest int... | [
"That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening\nthe weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought\nrain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly\nimagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and\ncrocuses were hidden under wi... |
1,149 | 768_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cathy is growing up a favorite of her father. She is not allowed to leave the grounds of Thrushcross Grange and has no notion of Heathcliff or Wuthering Heights. However, like her mother, she yearns to explore the moors and a certain rock formation called Penistone Crags. Because you have to go past the Heights to get ... | [
"The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like... |
1,150 | 768_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edgar sends a letter from London announcing that Isabella is dead and that he will be returning with her son, Linton Heathcliff. They finally arrive, and Cathy excitedly meets her cousin, a "pale, delicate, effeminate boy" . Joseph comes down from the Heights to take Linton home to his father. Edgar feels terrible, bec... | [
"A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return.\nIsabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter,\nand arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.\nCatherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and\nindulged most sanguine a... |
1,151 | 768_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly wakes Linton up at 5 o'clock in the morning to take him to his father. Because his mother never mentioned his father, Linton is surprised and confused. Linton is full of questions about his father, questions Nelly answers reluctantly. Nelly and Linton arrive at the Heights. "Hallo, Nelly!" Heathcliff cries. "I fe... | [
"To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton\ncommissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine's pony; and,\nsaid he--'As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or\nbad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot\nassociate with him hereafter, and... |
1,152 | 768_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cathy is not happy to have lost her new cousin and playmate so quickly. The housekeeper from the Heights updates Nelly on how things are going between Linton and his father--as expected, not good. Linton is sick all of the time and is "selfish and disagreeable" . On her sixteenth birthday, Cathy announces that she woul... | [
"We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n... |
1,153 | 768_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edgar is ill. Nelly takes Cathy out for a walk on the moors to enjoy some fresh air and to cheer her up after ending her little romance. They discuss the possibility of Edgar dying and Cathy announces that she loves Papa and would never "do an act, or say a word to vex him" . Right. While out on the walk, Cathy drops h... | [
"Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the\nharvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.\nMr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers;\nat the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the\nevening happening to be ... |
1,154 | 768_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly and Cathy arrive at the Heights to find Linton, shivering and pathetic, making demands that Joseph flatly ignores. Linton chastises Cathy for ignoring him and complains about his treatment by Heathcliff. Cathy and Linton begin to fight about their parents' relationships. When he tells Cathy that her mother hated ... | [
"The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half\ndrizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path--gurgling from the\nuplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly\nthe humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things. We\nentered the farm-house by the kitchen... |
1,155 | 768_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A suspicious Nelly finds out that Cathy has been sneaking away to the Heights during her illness. Nelly forces the truth out of her, and Cathy briefly takes over the narrative. Here's Cathy's story: she goes to the Heights every night while Nelly is sick. She and Linton spend all sorts of time talking and telling stori... | [
"At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im... |
1,156 | 768_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly interrupts her narrative to tell Lockwood that her story has now taken them up to the previous winter. She and Lockwood then discuss the possibility of Cathy falling in love with him. Huh?! Nelly resumes her narrative. Edgar presses her for information about his nephew, Linton, wanting to know if he is nearly as ... | [
"'These things happened last winter, sir,' said Mrs. Dean; 'hardly more\nthan a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months'\nend, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!\nYet, who knows how long you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest\nalways contented, living... |
1,157 | 768_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edgar allows Cathy to meet with Linton, as long as they stay on Grange property. Nelly and Cathy end up going past the property line and encounter Linton looking worse than ever. He is feeble, pale, and unable to follow the conversation. Something is up--Linton is very worried about what Heathcliff thinks of his behavi... | [
"Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his\nassent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride\nto join her cousin. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but\nwith a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of\nmeeting had been fixed at t... |
1,158 | 768_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edgar is dying. Linton continues to send appeals to his uncle to see Cathy. Edgar seems open to the idea of Cathy marrying Linton, for as Nelly reports: "Linton's letters bore few or no indications of his defective character" . Nelly doesn't tell him about Linton's health because she doesn't want to upset Edgar as he i... | [
"Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre... |
1,159 | 768_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the fifth day, the house servant Zillah finds Nelly. Everyone in the village thought she had sunk beneath the marsh, but Hareton gave Zillah the key to let Nelly out. Nelly finds Linton coughing on the couch. Cathy is locked in a room upstairs and is not allowed to leave. Heathcliff has poisoned Linton against Cathy... | [
"On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step\napproached--lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the\nroom. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk\nbonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.",
"'Eh, dear! Mrs. Dean!' she exclaimed. 'Well! t... |
1,160 | 768_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that her master is dead, Nelly hopes to stay at the Grange. Heathcliff has other plans, storming into the house as its new master. He announces immediately his intention of bringing Cathy home to the Heights despite her desire to stay at the Grange with Nelly. Ever since Linton helped Cathy escape, Heathcliff has p... | [
"The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.",
"We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra... |
1,161 | 768_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nelly tells Lockwood that she has not seen Cathy since that day. Her only source of gossip is Zillah, the housekeeper at the Heights. Zillah briefly takes over the narrative: back at the Heights, Cathy tries to convince Heathcliff that his son is dying. Heathcliff doesn't care and won't spend the money for a doctor. Li... | [
"I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she\nleft: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her,\nand wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was 'thrang,' and the\nmaster was not in. Zillah has told me something of the way they go on,\notherwise I should hardly kno... |
1,162 | 768_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lockwood goes up to the Heights and delivers a note to Cathy from Nelly. Cathy cannot send a response because she has no paper. Heathcliff has taken everything away from her and Hareton has hidden some of her books in his room. After Cathy humiliates him for his illiteracy, Hareton returns the books to her. When she co... | [
"Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I\nproposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to\nher young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not\nconscious of anything odd in her request. The front door stood open, but\nthe jealous gate was fastened,... |
1,163 | 768_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some time has passed since Lockwood left, when he finds himself in the vicinity of the Grange. He arrives at the Grange to find that Nelly has moved up to the Heights. Lockwood visits the Heights and is immediately struck by the changes in its appearance. The gate, for once, is not locked. Doors and windows are open an... | [
"1802.--This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in\nthe north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within\nfifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was\nholding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green\noats, newly reaped, pass... |
1,164 | 768_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 33 jumps backwards in time a bit. Cathy and Hareton grow closer, though the sight of it annoys both Joseph and Heathcliff. Together they plant a garden, but dig up Joseph's plants to do it. When Heathcliff scolds them for touching the property, Cathy stands up for herself, saying, "You shouldn't grudge a few ya... | [
"On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p... |
1,165 | 768_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Heathcliff leaves the house all night. When he returns, Cathy reports that he has a "different" look on his face. When Nelly sees him, he has a "strange joyful glitter in his eyes" . Heathcliff wanders around the garden in a rare good mood. Nelly tries to get to the bottom of it but he refuses to give her any details, ... | [
"For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at\nmeals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He\nhad an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing\nrather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed\nsufficient sustenance for hi... |
1,132 | 768_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wuthering Heights opens with Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, writing in his diary about his visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff. While entering Wuthering Heights, Lockwood notices but does not comment upon the date "1500" and the name "Hareton Earnshaw" above the principal door. Lockwood, an unwelco... | [
"1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ... |
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