Wuthering Heights, new translation - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Adopted by the Earnshaw family, Heathcliff is raised on the Wuthering Heights estate. When his father dies, he is reduced to the role of a servant. Only young Cathy Earnshaw allows him to endure the mistreatment and insults. Having become inseparable, they soon feel a devouring passion for each other. But their social differences condemn their relationship. Despite her love, Cathy cannot imagine a union with a man without rank or education. Heathcliff will forever keep a deep wound from it. One of those that inspires a feeling of revenge.
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Emily Brontë (Author)
Stephanie Hans (Author)
Josette Chicheportiche (Translation)
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Nationality: United Kingdom
Born in: Thornton, 07/30/1818
Died in: Haworth, 19/12/1848
Biography:
Emily Jane Brontë is a British poet and novelist, sister of the writers Charlotte and Anne Brontë.
The daughter of a pastor, she was the fifth child in a family of six. She spent almost her entire life in the Haworth presbytery where her father officiated.
She lost her mother at a very young age (at three years old) and her two older sisters to tuberculosis. She then took refuge in her imagination. She created with her sisters and brother an imaginary character that they staged in various stories. Emily had major relationship problems with the outside world and two attempts at schooling were failures.
She became a schoolteacher, but eventually gave up her position and her job. In 1842, she went to Europe, to Brussels, where she learned French and the piano. On her return, she became the housekeeper of the presbytery and divided her time between writing and walking on the moor.
It was the discovery of Emily's talents as a poet that led the Brontë sisters to publish, at their own expense, a collection of their poems in 1846. Because of the prejudices of the time against women authors, all three used male pseudonyms, Emily becoming "Ellis Bell". The main source of inspiration for Emily and her sisters was Lord Byron, discovered in the review "Blackwood's Magazine" and who "became synonymous with all prohibitions and all audacity", as if he inherently brought about the lifting of inhibitions.
Still self-employed and still under her pseudonym, Emily then published in 1847 her only novel, "Wuthering Heights", which enjoyed some success, even if it is not comparable to that of "Jane Eyre" published the same year by her sister Charlotte (1816-1855). It is considered one of the greatest classics of English literature.
She also took great care of her brother, who had become an alcoholic following a romantic disappointment. At his funeral (1848), Emily, who was probably already infected with tuberculosis, caught a cold and refused to seek treatment. She died of tuberculosis the same year.
"Wuthering Heights" has been adapted for film several times, including a 1992 film directed by Peter Kosminsky, starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes.
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