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书名：Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄
作者：Emily Brontë
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2011
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531797
商品尺寸：10.7 x 2.3 x 17 cm
包装：简装
页数：338 （以实物为准）
Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》是英国女作家勃朗特姐妹之一艾米莉·勃朗特的作品，19世纪英国文学的代表作之一。小说描写吉卜赛弃儿希斯克利夫被山庄老主人收养后，因受辱和恋爱不遂，外出致富。回来后对与其女友凯瑟琳结婚的地主林顿及其子女进行报复的故事。
推荐理由：
1.英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特代表作，英国文坛不朽名著；
2.《呼啸山庄》出版后一直被人认为是英国文学史上一部“奇特的小说”，一部“奥秘莫测”的“怪书”；
3.艾米莉打破传统，率先采用了基本倒叙法，即小说的主体部分采用倒叙，只有开头的三章和结尾的四章是顺叙；
4.鲜明精细的人物及环境描写，质朴而生动的语言，加强了作品的生活气息；
5.作品运用梦幻、象征、预兆、隐喻的写作手法，以及神秘、怪诞的哥特式手法；
6.英文原版无删减，小巧轻便，阅读方便。
Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846,itwas published in 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell”.Wuthering Heightsis widely regarded as a classic of English literature, and ithas inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatizations.
With an Introduction by Alice Hoffman and a New Afterword by Juliet Barker
“It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.” — Virginia Woolf
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love thanWuthering Heights. This isthe story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, 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 understanding 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 Brontë died a year after this great novel was published.
Emily Brontëwas born in 1818, the second of the three famous Brontë sisters, two years younger than Charlotte and a year and a half older than Anne. Their mother died when Emily Was three, and she and her sisters and brother grew up in the remote village of Haworth in Yorkshire, where their father was a rector. They were primarily educated at home by their father and aunt, and all three sisters were writers from an early age. In 1846, they published a volume of poems under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The following year, Emily published her sole novel,Wuthering Heights, the book that established her as a major figure in English literature. She died in 1848.
Alice Homanwas born in New York, and she earned her graduate degree, at Stanford University. She is the author of numerous acclaimed novels such asTurtle Moon,Practical Magic,Hereon Earth (modeled on the themes ofWuthering Heights), andThe StorySisters, as well as two books of short fiction and eight books for children and young adults.
Juliet Barker is an internationally recognized expert on the Brontë. She was born in Yorkshire, and she has lived within a few miles of Haworth all her life. Educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained a doctorate in medieval history, she was curator and librarian of the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth from 1983 to 1989. Her revolutionary and prizewinning biography,The Brontës, was the result of eleven years’ research in archives throughout the world; it was aNew York Times Notable book ofthe year. Forfurther information see her Web site at www.julietbarker.co.uk.
1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord---the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still farther in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
“Mr Heathcliff!” I said.
A nod was the answer.
Mr Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts—
“Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir,” he interrupted, wincing. “I should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it--walk in!”
The `walk in' was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, “Go to the deuce”: even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathizing movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.
When he saw my horse's breast fairly pushing the barrier, he did put out his hand to unchain it, and then sullenly preceded me up the causeway, calling, as we entered the court: “Joseph, take Mr Lockwood's horse; and bring up some wine.”
“Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,” was the reflection suggested by this compound order.
No wonder the grass grows up between the flags, and cattle are the only hedge-cutters.
Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy. “The Lord help us!” he soliloquized in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff’s dwelling.
