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Cumbres Borrascosas

Emily Brontë

Cumbres Borrascosas is the essential English romantic novel of the nineteenth century. It describes the passionate and intense love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by Catherine's father. Bullied by Catherine's brother and believing his love unrequited, Heathcliff leaves and returns years later a wealthy man. He then exacts different forms of revenge in a chaotic, violent, and jealous manner.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Editorial Alma
  • Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2019
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: Spanish
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.60in - 6.30in - 1.20in - 1.70lb
  • EAN: 9788415618898
  • Categories: ClassicsRomance - General

About the Author

Emily Brontë is a writer. Like her two sisters, Charlotte and Anne Brontë, she is considered one of the best of her generation. Using the pseudonym Ellis Bell, she wrote only one novel. Though criticized initially, Cumbres Borrascosas is now widely regarded as a classic.

Praise for this book

"It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality."--Virginia Woolf, on the English-language edition