Wuthering Heights

Descubrí a Emily Brönte después que a su hermana Charlotte, autora de "Jane Eyre", a quien un día dedicaré una entrada en el blog. La conocí en clase de inglés cuando tenía unos 15 años, porque en el libro había un extracto de de novela que ocupaba sólo unas líneas, pero no pude reprimirme y me leí el libro, o me lo zampé, no lo tengo muy claro, y desde entonces no puedo escoger entre las dos hermanas, porque me parecen las dos igual de fantásticas. Os dejo con el resumen del libro, espero que lo disfrutéis y esto, como a mí, os anime a leerlo o devorarlo:

"Wuthering heights" was published in 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. It is one of the most romantic stories ever.

Mr. Loockwood wanted to rent a house in the mountains and met Mr. Heathcliff, a rude and curt man, owner of Wuthering Heights.
That night he had to stay in Heathcliff's house and he found a personal diary of a girl called Catherine Earnshaw, a close childhood friend of Heathcliff. That night Loockwood dreamt about this girl and started to shout and scream. Heathcliff came into the room and when he knew that it was all about Catherine, everybody left him alone and he tried to spoke to Catherine... that's why Loockwood asked about his story.

Everything began when Mr.Earnshaw found an orphan, dark boy in Liverpool, and brought him to Wuthering heights. He was called Heathcliff.
Mr.Earnshaw had also a son and a daughter, Hindley and Catherine, respectively. The son didn't like Heathcliff at all, but Catherine soon became a good and close friend. They were in love, but they were too young.
When Mr.Earnshaw died, three years later, Hindley became the owner of the state and treated Heathcliff as a servant, but it couldn't end the friendship of him and his sister. Hindley married a woman, Frances.

One day, they both were playing, Heathcliff and Catherine, near their neighbors, the Lintons, when a dog bit her and she had to stay there for a while, recovering herself.
This family was very kind and helped Catherine to become a polite and well-manared young woman. The son, Edgar Linton, began to like Catherine, and Heathcliff couldn't stand it.

One year later Frances, Hindley's wife, died, while giving birth a boy, Hareton, and Hindley took to drinking.

Two years later Catherine agreed to marry Edgar Linton, although he was in love with Heathcliff, and her love was immovable like the rocks.
Heathcliff couldn't stand it and left. She felt sick and desperate, but Edgar took care of her and finally they marry, but a few months later Heathcliff came back, wealthier, like a gentleman.

Hindley was a drunken man and died, what meant that Heathcliff was then the owner of Wuthering Heights.
At the same time, Isabella, Edgar's sister, fell in love with him and Heathcliff made the most of it, as it was a good opportunity to have the Lintons states, too.

Catherine initially was happy at seeing Heathcliff again, but then becomes very ill after a harsh argument with Heathcliff regarding Isabella. They reconcile a few hours before her death, however, reaffirming their feelings for one another. Catherine dies after giving birth to a daughter also named Catherine, or Cathy.

I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Heathcliff married Isabella and they had a boy called Linton, despised for his own father.

Hareton, Hindley's son, reminded Heathcliff of Catherine... but he couldn't think of that, he had to degrade him as Hindley degraded himself in the past.

Twelve years later, Isabella was dying and tried to left his son to his brother, Edgar but Heathcliff found out everything and decided to take care of him, by letting him live in Wuthering Heights, but despising him, too.

Then, Linton and Hareton lived together but in different ways: Cathy and Linton were friends and Hareton was working all day, he couldn't hardly speak...
Heathcliff forced Cathy and Linton to marry, and because Edgar Linton died, Cathy became a prisoner in Wuthering Heights.
Linton was very ill and died, too. So, Cathy and Hareton, cousins, lived in the same house and started to be very close of each other, like Catherine and Heathcliff in the past... Cathy teached Hareton to read, write...

Heathcliff is confronted by Cathy and Hareton's love and Hareton's determination to protect the defiant Cathy from Heathcliff's attacks remained Heathcliff his own story and he seems to suffer a mental break from reality and begins to see Catherine's ghost. He abandons his life-long vendetta and soon dies, smiling as he fulfills his life-long dream of joining Catherine in the afterlife.