Hello and welcome to this sleepy bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

In our last episode, we read the final pages of Wuthering Heights. In case you nodded off before we finished,

this is a recap of the last episode.

But be warned,

if you haven't listened to the whole book

and you don't want to know how it turns yet,

stop this episode now.

For the rest of you, I will continue.

Ellen explained how after their conversation Heathcliff was changed. His appetite declined, and when he went to bed, he chose Kathy's old room instead of his own. She heard him leave the house one night, and in the morning she bid Catherine

and Harriton to eat their breakfast before he came down.

Young Catherine wandered to the gate and returned astonished

to have found Heathcliff on his way home,

looking oddly euphoric after a night on the Moors.

He remained in this state for days. euphoric after a night on the Moors.

He remained in this state for days without consuming any food and seeming to be staring at

something that wasn't there.

When he did speak to Ellen, he told her that he was close to his heaven and felt blissful,

despite looking demonic to Ellen's eyes.

Finally one morning, Ellen noticed the window in his chamber opened during a rainstorm

and went up to close up to find Heathcliff lying

still on the bed, wet with rain, but with the same smile on his face. Dr. Kenneth said that

the starvation did not kill him but was a symptom of an illness he had,

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