Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. "Only Emily Brontë," V. S. Pritchett said about the author and her contemporaries, "exposes her imagination to the dark spirit." And Virginia Woolf wrote, "It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and...
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Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. The epic story of Catherine and Heathcliff plays out against the dramatic backdrop of the wild English moors, and presents an astonishing metaphysical vision of fate and obsession, passion and revenge. "Only Emily Brontë," V. S. Pritchett said, "exposes...
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Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
Yorkshire, 1786. As the abandoned son of a sailor from India, Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." He's flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks...
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Bis heute gehören die Schwestern Charlotte, Emily und Anne Brontë zu den meistgelesenen Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jh. Schon als Kinder begannen die Töchter eines englischen Pfarrers und verhinderten Autors zu schreiben und erfanden Fantasiewelten. Ihre großen Romane "Jane Eyre", "Sturmhöhe" und "Agnes Grey" waren Skandalerfolge. Sie handeln von Sadismus, Wahnsinn, Ehebruch, Inzest, Alkoholismus und von Frauen, leidenschaftlich und ungeduldig,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
400 p.
Description
In a reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaw's loyal servant, young Nelly Dean suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most and discovers what it is to know true sacrifice after a new heir is born.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca . 182 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the dark brooding orphan boy Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights, he is at first shunned by his new stepsiblings, Catherine and Hindley. Catherine eventually falls in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley's rivalry with Heathcliff only deepens, and when Hindley inherits the estate, he treats Heathcliff as little more than a servant. When Catherine later marries a neighboring landowner who can offer her social advancement,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...