Wuthering Heights

图书标准信息

• 作者 Emily Bronte 著
• 出版社 Penguin Books
• 出版时间 2012-12
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780141199085
• 定价 67.70元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 384页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

ThePenguinEnglishLibraryEditionofWutheringHeightsbyEmilyBronte.

"Mayyounotrest,aslongasIamliving.YousaidIkilledyou-hauntme,then"

Lockwood,thenewtenantofThrushcrossGrangeonthebleakYorkshiremoors,isforcedtoseekshelteronenightatWutheringHeights,thehomeofhislandlord.Therehediscoversthehistoryofthetempestuouseventsthattookplaceyearsbefore:oftheintensepassionbetweenthefoundlingHeathcliffandCatherineEarnshaw,andherbetrayalofhim.AsHeathcliff'sbitternessandvengeanceisvisiteduponthenextgeneration,theirinnocentheirsmuststruggletoescapethelegacyofthepast.

ThePenguinEnglishLibrary-100editionsofthebestfictioninEnglish,fromtheeighteenthcenturyandtheveryfirstnovelstothebeginningoftheFirstWorldWar.

【作者简介】

EmilyBrontewasborninThornton,Yorkshire,inthenorthofEngland.Betweentheyears1824and1825EmilyattendedtheschoolatCowanBridgewithCharlotte,andthenwaslargelyeducatedathome.Shewroteafewlettersandwasinterestedinmysticism.Herfirstnovel,WutheringHeights(1847),astory-within-a-story,didnotgainimmediatesuccessasCharlotte'sJaneEyre,butithasacclaimedlaterfameasoneofthemostintensenovelswrittenintheEnglishlanguage.WutheringHeightswastheonlynovelthatsheeverwrote.EmilyBrontediedoftuberculosisinthelate1848.