Chapter 1
Opens with '1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.' Lockwood naively calls Heathcliff 'a capital fellow' and a 'misanthropist's heaven.'
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From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Lockwood's diary-style opening that establishes the frame narrative and introduces Heathcliff through an outsider's misjudging eyes.
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