Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a life-long quest to avenge himself upon those who stole his only love and his life.
In this gripping chronicle of the never-ending conflict between the heart and the mind -- and the pain and passion of true romance -- Emily Brontë created an unforgettable classic saga of love, desperation, vengeance, and forgiveness. Published just one year before Brontë's death in 1848 at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights endures as one of the world's greatest love stories and a classic of English literature.
在重读之前我想不起《呼啸山庄》的任何好处。自然,希刺克厉夫的黑头发和黑眼睛,凯瑟琳的骄傲与疯狂,呼啸山庄的冷峻和荒凉是不能忘记的,也仅此而已——然而这差不多是小说的全部要素了。如果说托尔斯泰和福楼拜的广博使人敬服,那么这种情景剧般的简单结构便叫人惊异了。类...
评分2010.7.28 A strange thing happened when I was reading this book. Obviously, the writing itself was powerful and the book, a page turner. But as I was reading it, I never thought of those characters to be real. Neither could I relate to them, nor did I a...
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