Cumbres Borrascosas

Paperback, 432 pages

Published May 17, 2018 by ANAYA INFANTIL Y JUVENIL.

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978-84-698-3620-0
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Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.

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This is one of the famous classics of English literature and part of the Western canon. Emily Brontë and her sisters lived at the beginning of the gothic story in the first part of the nineteenth century. So the moodiness, gloom, and melancholy atmosphere is of course abundant in this story, taking over the character development, plot, and setting depicted. The Yorkshire countryside takes on a role similar to the untamed frontier in early nineteenth century American literature. In at the center is a claustrophobic pair of landed families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, with a few servants and the one character who serves to propel the plot, that of Heathcliff. He is of some indeterminate though definitely lesser class origin according to everyone else. The book covers two generations, starting with the early life of Heathcliff and his great love Catherine Earnshaw, then jumping over eighteen years to focus …