Oxford World´s Classics - Wuthering Heights

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nové vydání klasické anglické četby - Tragický příběh jedné velké a nenaplněné lásky, zrady, nenávisti a touhy po pomstě...Rodina Earnshawových se ujme chlapce jménem Heathcliff. Když děti vyrostou, Catherine Earnshaw a Heathcliff se do sebe zamilují, ale Catherine se rozhodne vzít Edgara Lintona z velkého domu přes vřesoviště. Heathcliff ze zoufalství uteče. Catherine umírá při porodu. Co se stane s dcerou Cathy? Vyrovná se Heathcliff někdy se ztrátou milované osoby? Když se o několik let později vrátí, nastane série strašných událostí ... 'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...'

Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the remote Yorkshire farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine rapidly forms a passionate attachment to him, but when Catherine's brother takes over the Heights, Heathcliff is lowered to the position of a barely-tolerated farmhand. When Catherine decides to marry the refined Edgar Linton instead, Heathcliff turns revenger. He determines to degrade not only those who sought to degrade him, but their children after them.

Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also, as the Introduction to this edition explores, one of the most potent revenge narratives. Its ingenious narrative structure, vivid evocation of landscape, and the extraordinary power of its depiction of love and hatred have given it a unique place in English literature. This edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Brontë.