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När hittebarnet Heathcliff får följa med Mr Earnshaw hem till det stora huset på Wuthering Heights är det början på hans nya liv. Heathcliff och Mr Earnshaws dotter Catherine finner varandra direkt, men trots att Heathcliff är älskad av fadern och systern kan brodern inte acceptera honom som en del av familjen. Heathcliff växer upp olycklig och svåråtkomlig och när hans fosterfar avlider försvåras hans liv ytterligare.

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." In the winter of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a home in Northern England. When he meets his unfriendly landlord, Heathcliff, who lives in the old nearby manor Wurthering Heights, Lockwood is curious to know why he seems so troubled. By asking his housekeeper, Lockwood finds out much more than he bargained for. One of the most controversial and debated love stories of all times, 'Wuthering Heights' is one of those classics you just have to read.

In the classic Wuthering Heights, Catherine is forced to choose between passionate, tortured gypsy Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton. Catherine surrenders to the expectations of her class and sets off a domino effect with lasting consequences. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal are visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the lovers tortured past.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A work of considerable power and intensity set in the Yorkshire moors in the late 18th century - the bleak and wild moorland often reflected in the natures of the characters. Unsettling at times, the novel is a heady mix of gritty realism, romance, Gothic horror, and tragedy.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

Set in the wild, stormy moorland of England. It tells the tale of the Linton and Earnshaw families: Edgar and Isabella Linton and Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw and their strange adopted brother, Heathcliff. Now considered a classic of English literature, upon publication it received mix reviews due to its Gothic undertones and savage passions. Wuthering Heights has inspired many adaptations, including film, radio, and television dramatizations and a hit song by Kate Bush.

En los sombríos páramos de Yorkshire, donde el viento silba entre los brezos y las emociones son tan intensas como el clima implacable, se desarrolla una historia de amor y venganza que desafía el tiempo. Cumbres Borrascosas nos sumerge en la trágica saga de los Earnshaw y los Linton, dos familias ligadas por el destino en una mansión embrujada por pasiones oscuras. La narrativa comienza con el misterioso regreso de Heathcliff, un joven enigmático y atormentado, a la finca de los Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights.

Includes the entire, unabridged audio narration of Wuthering Heights, as well as in-depth analysis on the text, covering the key areas of: Characters, Themes, Structure and Form, Historical Context and Popular Criticism - as well as detailed chapter summaries and key quotations for your exam. This audio study guide covers the core assessment objectives of the A-Level syllabus. This will give students studying these texts a strong foundation from which they can build their understanding, engage with other critical commentary and draw connections to other literary texts.

Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged Victorian ideas about religion, morality, class, and woman's place in society.

Hay relaciones que desde el inicio paracen estar destinadas a ser apasionadas y complejas, pero pocas como la que se crea entre Catherine y Heathcliffe, personajes fundamentales de "Cumbres Borrascosas", a los que los deseos "del cruel destino"..... Cumbra Borrascosas difícil hacer una breve introducción de lo que puede ser considerada como una de las obras maestras de la literatura universal.

"Se tutto il resto scomparisse e restasse solo lui, continuerei a esistere.""Un romanzo in cui domina la violenza sugli uomini, sugli animali, sulle cose, scandito da scatti di crudeltà sia fisica sia, soprattutto, morale. Un romanzo brutale e rozzo - sono gli aggettivi utilizzati dalla critica dell'epoca - che scuoteva gli animi per la sua potenza e la sua tetraggine e che narra il consumarsi di un'inesorabile (sino a un certo punto) vendetta portata avanti con fredda meticolosità dal disumano Heathcliff.

Titled after the name of the farmhouse where most of the story unfolds, Wuthering Heights is an acclaimed novel about jealousy and revenge. The book is hailed as a classic in English literature and has been praised for challenging the old Victorian values of that time. Highly controversial then, Emily Bronte's only novel is widely considered by many as the best of the Bronte sisters' works.

Wie zwei Naturgewalten lässt Emily Brontë das wütende Findelkind Heathcliff und die ungestüme Catherine aufeinander los und an der Liebe für den anderen zerbrechen. In den Seelen der Verwundeten nisten sich in der Folge wie bösartige Wucherungen Hass und Verzweiflung ein, die sich durch Generationen und das geliebte Wuthering Heights fressen. 1847 veröffentlichte Emily Brontë ihren ersten und einzigen Roman - eine Geschichte so wild und urwüchsig wie die Landschaft, in der dieses mitreißende Stück englischer Literatur spielt. Gert Westphal liest ihr unvergessenes Meisterwerk mit emotionaler Wucht.

Bei Familie Earnshaw auf dem Gutshof Wuthering Heights wächst Heathcliff auf, mit Tochter Catherine in tiefer Freundschaft verbunden. Doch über die Familie bricht Unglück herein, und schließlich heiratet die leidenschaftliche Catherine entgegen ihrer Gefühle den reichen Nachbarn. Heathcliff ist so verletzt, dass er Rache schwört. Kein geringerer als Theaterkönig Rolf Boysen liest diesen Klassiker der Weltliteratur. Mit der ihm eigenen Energie gibt er Mr. Lockwood, Nelly, Heathcliff und den anderen eine Stimme, nimmt uns mit ins stürmische Yorkshire, und macht aus dem Hörerlebnis ein Naturereignis.

The Bronte Sisters: A Collection of Poems. While the novels of the Bronte sisters are much beloved, their beautiful works of poetry often go unnoticed. This collection contains all their poetical works, pieced together by Charlotte, who provides illuminating commentary on her dear sisters' words. The collection was first published under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Raised together on the Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Catherine become lovers and soul mates so utterly inseparable that their destiny seems inevitable. But when Catherine's desire for social status results in her marriage to Heathcliff's wealthy rival, Heathcliff is consumed by revenge. And no one in his path will be spared.

This is a diverting delight, a window on romance in literature. There are high lovers and low lovers, tragic lovers, comic lovers, and lovers who shouldn’t be doing what they are doing at all and certainly not then and there. There is even Fanny Hill trying not to discover what physical love is about when set upon by an old roué who has paid for the privilege. Though of special interest for lovers and their special lover’s day of St. Valentine, it is an amusing and sometimes surprising collection.

Extraviado en una tormenta en un rocoso páramo inglés, un amable viajero llamado Lockwood queda fascinado con la historia que le narra Nelly acerca de Cumbres Borrascosas, una lóbrega mansión cercana. Mientras el viento ruge en el exterior, el fatigado visitante escucha la triste historia de Heathcliff, un criado, y su inocente amor por Cathy, un espíritu libre que nunca llegó a hacer realidad su fiera pasión por él, porque cuando Heathcliff volvió en su busca después de mucho tiempo intentando hacer fortuna, se encontró a Cathy ya casada con un joven de la alta sociedad.

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne examine life on the moors, romance, and death in a series of lyric poems that were written in their early years.

Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë’s, they were rather good at that too.