• Flesch-Kincaid Level: 7
  • Approx. Reading Time: 9 hours and 42 minutes
Fiction

Wuthering Heights

1801.—I HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

“Mr. Heathcliff?” I said

A nod was the answer.

  • Flesch-Kincaid Level: 7
  • Approx. Reading Time: 9 hours and 42 minutes