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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "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 the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
Alice Hoffman's Here On Earth is a modern version of Wuthering Heights. [1] In the last pages of the 2005 novel Glennkill by German writer Leonie Swann, Wuthering Heights is being read to the sheep by the shepherd's daughter, and in a way helps the main character of the novel, a sheep-detective called Miss Maple, to guess the identity of the ...
Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. [1] Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured antihero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him; in short, the Byronic hero.
The genesis of Agnes Grey was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. [4]It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, [5] although Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre were all published within the same year: 1847. [6]
Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American romantic period drama film directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven, and based on the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film depicts only 16 of the novel's 34 chapters, eliminating the second generation of characters.
Catherine Earnshaw (later Catherine Linton) is the female protagonist of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights written by Emily Brontë. [1] [2] [3] Catherine is one of two surviving children born to Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw, the original tenants of the Wuthering Heights estate.
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is a 1992 historical film adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights directed by Peter Kosminsky. It marked Ralph Fiennes 's film debut. This particular film is notable for including the oft-omitted second generation story of the children of Cathy, Hindley and Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British Gothic romantic drama film directed by Andrea Arnold starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine Earnshaw and James Howson as Heathcliff. The screenplay written by Arnold and Olivia Hetreed , is based on Emily Brontë 's 1847 novel of the same name .