Mr. Earnshaw, a Yorkshire Farmer and owner of Wuthering Heights, brings home an orphan from Liverpool. The boy is named Heathcliff and is raised with the Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine. Catherine loves Heathcliff but Hindley hates him because Heathcliff has replaced Hindley in Mr. Earnshaw's affection. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Hindley does what he can to destroy Heathcliff, but Catherine and Heathcliff grow up playing wildly on the moors, oblivious of anything or anyone else - until they encounter the Lintons.

"Wuthering Heights" from Emily Bronte. English novelist and poet (1818-1848)."

Wuthering Heights is the only published novel by Emily Bronte, written between October 1845 and June 1846 and published in July of the following year. It was not printed until December 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, after the success of her sister Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. Today...

"The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte" from Emily Bronte. A British novelist and poet, she used the pen name Ellis Bell (1818-1848)."

La historia comienza con la llegada del senor Lockwood a Cumbres Borrascosas, quien sera el nuevo inquilino del senor Heathcliff en la Granja de los Tordos, quien es el dueno Cumbres Borrascosas y un senor con un humor muy fuerte. En esta casa se encuentra el senor Heatcliff, Catherine (una joven), Hareton Earnshaw (un joven), Joseph. En la segunda visita, el senor Lockwood tiene una discusion con Heathcliff y debido a que se hacia muy tarde, este se queda en su casa de visita, el ama de llaves lo instala en un cuarto, al final de las escaleras, que se ve abandonado de mucho tiempo, el cual...

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...

Es la narracion de una historia dramatica y tragica. Comienza con la llegada del nino Heathcliff al hogar de los Earnshaw, el cual es traido por el padre de la familia desde Liverpool. Ignoramos de donde ha salido esta criatura que pronto trastornara por completo la tranquila vida de su familia adoptiva asi como la de sus vecinos, los Linton. Es una historia de amor y de venganza, de odio y locura, de vida y de muerte. Catherine Earnshaw y Heathcliff desarrollan una relacion de dependencia mutua a lo largo de su vida, desde la infancia hasta mas alla de la muerte."

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