Abstract

The faults of Wuthering Heights proceed, not from defective knowledge of human nature, but from inferior technique, from an insufficient acquaintance with the craft of fiction. The story is in general ill constructed, and in its detail often complicated and obscure. In parts it is uncertainly conceived, the pattern of it haunted by bad example-the novel of edification and the Tale of Terror both lend to it vicious elements.*

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