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咆哮山莊

內容簡介

內容簡介 小說的背景是十八世紀英格蘭北部的約克郡，咆哮山莊的老主人恩蕭先生在一次商旅中，帶回一個身分不明的吉普賽男孩，並且收養了他。恩蕭先生替小男孩取名希斯克里夫，對他寵愛有加；引發了恩蕭長子辛德利對希斯克里夫的不滿與仇視，後來被送離咆哮山莊去念大學。當恩蕭先生去世之後，辛德利帶著在外地娶的妻子回來了，並繼承了咆哮山莊。為了報復被奪去的父愛，他將希斯克里夫貶為僕人。可是妹妹凱瑟琳卻和希斯克里夫相處融洽，逐漸發展出曖昧的情感。但希斯克里夫天性倔強，性格敏感而多疑，兩人之間雖互有好感，卻又存在著激烈的衝突。 兩人在一次的出遊意外中，凱瑟琳因緣際會認識了畫眉田莊的繼承人艾德加，因而漸漸冷落了希斯克里夫；當凱瑟琳決定嫁給艾德加時，難過又憤怒的希斯克里夫在一個暴風雨之夜離開了咆哮山莊。 三年後，希斯克里夫重返咆哮山莊時，已經是一名富商，但凱瑟琳已嫁給艾德加，成了畫眉田莊的少夫人。希斯克里夫為平靜的咆哮山莊帶來了詭異的氣氛，原來他的歸來是有目的，他雖然深愛著凱瑟琳，卻又恨她嫁給艾德加，矛盾的情感使他的行為越來越偏激。他逐步的施展計謀奪走了辛德利所有的家財，當然包括咆哮山莊，也將辛德利的兒子哈里頓貶為奴僕；甚至還利用艾德加的妹妹伊莎貝拉對他的好感，而假意娶她為妻，只是為了報復艾德加奪走凱瑟琳。希斯克里夫這一連串的復仇行動，使凱瑟琳痛苦不堪，她不想背叛自己的丈夫和兄長，但內心深處又深愛著希斯克里夫，精神終於崩潰，最後死於難產。 凱瑟琳逝去之後，希斯克里夫並未停止他的復仇行動；十多年後，當艾德加和凱瑟琳的小女兒長大成人，他又施計讓小凱瑟琳嫁給自己的兒子林頓。之後艾德加和林頓接連去世，希斯克里夫最後把艾德加家的財產和畫眉山莊都據為己有。復仇行動到此終於結束了，然而希斯克里夫卻始終無法忘懷凱瑟琳，最後抑鬱而終。之後，小凱瑟琳和哈里頓繼承了畫眉山莊和咆哮山莊的產業，兩人相知相守，在畫眉田莊安頓下來。Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Emily Brontë's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion

作者介紹

作者介紹 EMILY BRONTЁ was born on July 30, 1818. Her father was curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, and her mother died when she was five years old, leaving five daughters and one son. In 1824 Charlotte, Maria, Elizabeth and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for clergymen's daughters, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. The children were taught at home from this point on and together they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored by writing stories. Emily worked briefly as a teacher in 1938 but soon returned home. In 1846, Emily's poems were published alongside those of her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The following year Wuthering Heights was published. Emily Brontë died of consumption on December 19, 1848.

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