1、Wuthering Heights,Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Bront, written between October 1845 and June 1846,1 and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first and only published novel: she died aged 30 the following year. Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a cla
2、ssic of English literature, it received mixed reviews when first published, and was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was so unusually stark.In the second half of the 19th century, Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre was considered the best of the Bront sisters wor
3、ks, but later critics argued that Wuthering Heights was superior.,小说的背景是十八世纪英格兰北部的约克郡，来自城市的年轻人洛克伍德租下了沼泽地的画眉田庄，在一次拜访房东希斯克利夫的过程中，发现了隐藏在呼啸山庄里的一段过往： 呼啸山庄过去的主人老恩肖（Earnshaw）一次去利物浦办事，带回一个身分不明的吉普赛男孩，将他取名为希斯克利夫（Heathcliff）。这位小男孩夺去了老主人对长子辛德利（Hindley）以及女儿凯萨琳（Catherine）的宠爱，他逐渐遭到辛德利的怨恨，但与凯萨琳日久生情。老恩肖死后，辛德利与妻子法兰西丝
4、继承了山庄，为了报复，他把希斯克利夫贬为奴仆，并百般迫害。而凯萨琳尽管仍深爱希斯克利夫，却为了金钱而地位，嫁给了富有、英俊的画眉田庄主人埃德加林顿（Edgar Linton），希斯克利夫因而在暴风雨之夜愤而出走。 三年后，希斯克利夫再次回到沼泽地，他已成为一位富有的绅士，决定报复迫害他的辛德利，以及夺走他爱人的埃德加。他首先以赌博的方式剥夺了辛德利的财产与呼啸山庄，将辛德利的儿子哈里顿培养成一个粗鄙、无知的仆人。之后，他还诱骗了埃德加的妹妹伊莎贝拉（Isabella）与之私奔，造成林顿兄妹失和。埃德加与希斯克利夫之间的矛盾越来越大，使得凯萨琳内心挣扎不已，痛苦不堪的她最后在生产中死去，留下了女
5、儿小凯萨琳。而伊莎贝拉则在婚后不堪虐待，逃到城市里并生下了儿子林顿。 希斯克利夫仍不满足，他强迫埃德加交出伊莎贝拉的儿子林顿，之后又设法迫使他的女儿小凯萨琳，嫁给体弱多病的林顿。埃德加不久后病死了，遗产与画眉田庄全成为外甥林顿的财产，而林顿不久后也死去，财产最终落入希斯克利夫的手里，小凯萨琳也被永远监禁在呼啸山庄中。复仇得逞了，但他却感到内心的空虚，甚至将凯萨琳的棺木掘开，希望能与她长相厮守，最后不吃不喝、苦恋而亡。在他死后，小凯萨琳和哈里顿两人相爱，继承了山庄与田庄的产业，上一代不圆满的爱情在下一代得到了补偿。希斯克利夫对凯萨琳的爱是粗暴的，却也是无可取代的。,Emily Bront,Emi
6、ly Bront,(30 July 1818 19 December 1848)she was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Bront siblings. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.,Emily Bront w
7、as born on 30 July 1818 in the village of Thornton, Yorkshire, in the North of England, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Bront. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Bront .Emily became a teacher at Law Hill School in Halifax beginning in September 1838, when she was twenty.In 1844, Emily began going
8、 through all the poems she had written, recopying them neatly into two notebooks.In 1846, the sisters poems were published in one volume as Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The Bront sisters had adopted pseudonyms for publication, preserving their initials: Charlotte was Currer Bell, Emily wa
9、s Ellis Bell and Anne was Acton Bell.Emily Bront remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because information about her is sparse,due to her solitary and reclusive nature.She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.She caught a severe cold during the funeral of her brother Branwell in September 1848 which led to tuberculosis.Died in 19 December 1848,
