have at this point I have long enjoyed. I wanted to dive into a world of evil - and was from Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" (1847) quite surprised. So evil and mean and state I have now really is not her novel.
In "Wuthering Heights, the story of the families Earnshaw, Linton and Heathcliff over three generations out accompanied. Starting with the old Mr. Earnshaw, who brought a foundling from Liverpool in his family. His children Catherine and Hindley were different with the new brother Heathcliff to: Hindley was jealous, bullied and tormented him, Catherine other hand, found in him a kindred spirit. On Trushcross Grange grown to Edgar and Isabella Linton, and make friends with Hindley, Catherine and Heathcliff. When Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw die, Hindley is the master of the paternal estate Wuthering Heights. Seine Frau Frances stirbt bei der Geburt von Hareton und Hindley verfällt dem Alkohol und der Spielsucht. Er vernachlässigt seinen Sohn Hareton und sein Hass auf Heathcliff steigt. Catherine will dieser Situation entfliehen – und das Gift, das mehrere Generationen verpesten soll, nimmt seinen Lauf. Catherine will Edgar heiraten, den sich nicht liebt, der ihr aber eine solide, ehrbare Zukunft bietet, obwohl sie sich eigentlich mit Heathcliff verbunden fühlt. Heathcliff bekommt ein Gespräch mit, indem Catherine von einem gesellschaftlichen Abstieg spricht, wenn sie die Frau von dem Waisen Heathcliff wird. Gekränkt verlässt er den Hof und kehrt wenige Jahre später wieder, um nicht nur die Ehe von Edgar und Catherine in Gefahr to bring, but also destroy the lives of Isabella Linton and Hareton children, Catherine and Linton from the next generation.
draws on 450 pages in my edition back in the translation of Michael Messner - and it is wonderful, great and bitter. Brontë creates characters who in their behavior or their very nature are evil through and through and view or not at all too late their error. As readers, we get no insight into the inner lives of the characters and can only interpret their behavior and to guess their motives, for the complete story is inspired by a tenant of Trushcross Grange, all as an outsider during the third generation experienced. He in turn learns everything through the stories of the maid and nanny from Catherine. This narrative perspective is based on a distance to the figures and is reliable in any case. The story reads well and smoothly, and the family tree in my edition is extremely important to be able to survey the entire constellation of characters. I especially like are the fantastic elements that have provoked an intense atmosphere and of course even Heathcliff, the mysterious stranger with the black hair and dark skin. Only the last pages to attract a lot easier and I Linton, the son of Isabella and Heathcliff, really hate learned. Fortunately this died fast ...
"Wuthering Heights" I recommend you. Readers who love large family novels, which also still in the Victorian England of the 19th Century play, will have their fun with them.
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