wuthering heights

There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than V/uthering Heights. This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heatheliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny un- derstanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that it came from the heart of a woman who lived most of her brief life in the remote wildness of the moors. Emily Bronte died a year after this great novel was published。

Emily Bronte(30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Bronte siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.

艾米莉·勃朗特，19世紀英國小説家、詩人，英國文學史上著名的“勃朗特三姐妹”之一。這位女作家在世界上僅僅度過了三十年便默默無聞地離開了人間，然而她唯一的一部小説《呼嘯山莊》卻奠定了她在英國文學史以及世界文學史上的地位。此外，她還創作了193首詩，被認為是英國一位天才型的女作家。 ^[1]