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The Heights: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Our House comes a nail-biting story about a mother's obsession with revenge

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Canadian author Hilary Scharper's ecogothic novel Perdita (2013) was deeply influenced by Wuthering Heights, namely in terms of the narrative role of powerful, cruel and desolate landscapes. [132] Catwalk, a 1992–94 TV series about a fictional band, with several of the same songwriters called the Heights. Hagan, Sandra; Wells, Juliette (2008). The Brontės in the World of the Arts. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-5752-1. Saldana, Lois (March 16, 2005). "Three alum playwrights chat about life, work and Brown's MFA program". Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved August 1, 2021. In 1926 Charles Percy Sanger's work on the chronology of Wuthering Heights "affirmed Emily's literary craft and meticulous planning of the novel and disproved Charlotte's presentation of her sister as an unconscious artist who 'did not know what she had done'." However, for a later critic, Albert J. Guerard, "it is a splendid, imperfect novel which Brontë loses control over occasionally". [20]

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In 1978, the BBC produced a five-part TV serialisation of the book starring Ken Hutchinson, Kay Adshead and John Duttine, with music by Carl Davis; it is considered one of the most faithful adaptations of Emily Brontë's story. [122]Hudes was born in 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] to a Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother. [2] They raised her in West Philadelphia, where she began writing and composing music as a child. [3] She studied at the Mary Louise Curtis Branch of Settlement Music School, taking piano lessons with Dolly Krasnopolsky. [4] Hudes has said that, although she is of "Puerto Rican and Jewish blood", she was "raised by two Puerto Rican parents." Her birth parents separated and her step-father was a Puerto Rican entrepreneur. [5] van Ghent, Dorothy. "The Window Figure and the Two-Children Figure in Wuthering Heights". Nineteenth-Century Fiction, December 1952, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 189-197. JSTOR 3044358 At one point in the novel Heathcliff is thought a vampire. It has been suggested that both he and Catherine are in fact meant to be seen as vampire-like personalities. [72] [73] Themes [ edit ] Morality [ edit ] However, the word daemon can also mean "a demon or devil", and that is equally relevant to Heathcliff, [89] whom Peter McInerney describes as "a Satanic Don Juan". [90] Heathcliff is also "dark-skinned", [91] "as dark almost as if it came from the devil". [92] Likewise Charlotte Brontë described him "'a man's shape animated by demon life – a Ghoul – an Afreet'". [93] In Arabian mythology an "afreet", or ifrit, is a powerful jinn or demon. [94] However, John Bowen believes that "this is too simple a view", because the novel presents an alternative explanation of Heathcliff's cruel and sadistic behaviour; that is, that he has suffered terribly: "is an orphan; ... is brutalised by Hindley; ... relegated to the status of a servant; Catherine marries Edgar". [95] Love [ edit ]

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The Atlas review called it a "strange, inartistic story", but commented that every chapter seems to contain a "sort of rugged power." [13]Drabble, Margaret, ed. (1996) [1995]. "Charlotte Brontë". The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866244-0. consistently subverts the romantic narrative. Our first encounter with Heathcliff shows him to be a nasty bully. Later, Brontë puts in Heathcliff's mouth an explicit warning not to turn him into a Byronic hero: After ... Isabella elop[es] with him, he sneers that she did so "under a delusion ... picturing in me a hero of romance". [48]

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