Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë The griffin classics

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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

A fiend of a book — an incredible monster... The action is laid in hell, — only it seems places and people have English names there. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us. —Clement Shorter
The greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date. —Anthony Ludovici
There is no "I" in 'Wuthering Heights'. There are no governesses. There are no employers. There is love, but it is not the love of men and women. Emily was inspired by some more general conception. The impulse which urged her to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. —Virginia Woolf

Über Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë nació en 1818 en Thornton, en el norte de Inglaterrra. Hija de un clérigo, perdió a su madre a temprana edad y se educó junto con sus cuatro hermanas y su hermano Branwell en una rectoría aislada en los páramos de Yorkshire. Durante un breve período, asistió a la escuela de Cowan Bridge ?un siniestro internado que Charlotte retrataría en su novela Jane Eyre¬?, pero tras la muerte de sus hermanas Maria y Elizabeth ambas prosiguieron su educación en casa. Emily siempre destacó por su fuerte temperamento y su carácter reservado y huraño. Todos sus intentos por integrarse en el mundo ?un viaje a Bruselas junto con Charlotte para aprender francés, unos meses como institutriz? se saldaron con un apresurado regreso al hogar, donde Emily permanecería hasta su muerte en 1848, a los treinta años.Emily Brontë publicó en vida sólo unos cuantos poemas, que aparecerían en un volumen junto con los de sus hermanas Charlotte y Anne bajo los seudónimos de Ellis, Currer y Acton Bell, y la novela Cumbres borrascosas (1847).


Verlag:

The griffin classics

Veröffentlicht:

2020

Druckseiten:

ca. 343

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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