Emily Brontë
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This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and 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...
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Remixed classics volume 4
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Feiwel and Friends
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First edition.
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English
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"Yorkshire, 1786. As the abandoned son of a sailor from India, Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." He's flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish. Catherine is the younger child of the estate's owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother...
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Oscilloscope Laboratories
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English
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"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë
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Penguin Clásicos
Edition
Primera edición en Penguin Clásicos.
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Español
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Los mejores libros jamás escritos. Una de las mayores historias de amor de la literatura y quizá la mejor representante del Romanticismo inglés. Cumbres borrascosas, la épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombríos y desolados páramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa visión metafísica del destin o, la obsesión, la pasión y la venganza. Con ella, Emily Brontë, que se vio obligada a ocultar su género publicando...
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books4pocket
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1a. edición en books4pocket
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Español
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"Yorkshire, norte de Inglaterra, 1786. Heathcliff , el hijo abandonado de un navegante de la India, ha sido considerado un forastero casi toda su vida. Ahora está abocado a una existencia que le resulta ajena en los páramos de Yorkshire, donde se aferra al idioma de su padre, aunque los niños de la casa lo llamen «animal» y las criadas aseguren que sus expresiones son un galimatías. Catherine es la hija menor del propietario de la finca; una...
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WGBH Boston Video
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English
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Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.