Wuthering Heights

Liebe, Haß und Tod - ein Drama spielt sich ab auf dem Gutshof Wuthering Heights in Yorkshires düsterer Nebellandschaft. Vom Dämon der Rache und Eifersucht besessen, richtet der Findling Heathcliff ein Werk der Zerstörung an, dem auch die Angebetete Cathy zum Opfer fällt. Mehrere Generationen werden in einen Strudel rasender Leidenschaften gezogen. Emily Brontes ergreifende Geschichte voll psychologischer Raffinesse löste 1847 einen Sturm der Empörung aus.

Klappentext 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. In neuem Browserfenster anzeigen... In neuem Browserfenster anzeigen... Zusammenfassung A passionate story of the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff! a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. The story's action is chaotic and violent! but the accomplished handling of a complex structure! the descriptions of the moorland setting and the poetic grandeur combined to make this novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Autorentext

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.

Klappentext
Emily Bronte's only novel appeared to mixed reviews in 1847, a year before her death at the age of thirty. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, and in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors of its setting, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with a disregard for convention, an instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology that make it one of the greatest novels of passion ever written.

Zusammenfassung
A passionate story of the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. The story's action is chaotic and violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the descriptions of the moorland setting and the poetic grandeur combined to make this novel a masterpiece of English literature.

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