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wuthering

/ ˈ·Éʌðə°ùɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of a wind) blowing strongly with a roaring sound
  2. (of a place) characterized by such a sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of wuthering1

variant of whitherin, from whither blow, from Old Norse hvithra; related to hvitha squall of wind, Old English hweothu wind
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The latest production to be filmed in the region is a new adaptation of the classic novel Wuthering Heights, which has just finished shooting in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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Haworth Parsonage is where Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights and lived with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, and it was gifted to the Bronte Society in 1928.

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There have been at least 10 film and television adaptations of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel.

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Here was Hollywood, in particular the picture business, and Hecht, a former journalist and already the co-author of “The Front Page†and other plays, would take him up on it, writing or co-writing the screenplays for “Scarface,†“Nothing Sacred,†“Twentieth Century,†“Notorious†and “Wuthering Heights.â€

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Alice E. Olsson, in her English translation, locates a naive lyricism in the voice of this bright but unschooled boy, who learned the way of the world from the meager literature at hand: “Wuthering Heights,†“Flowers in the Attic,†old Jackie Collins novels.

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