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Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and
almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a
foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,
Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley
and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not
reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later
as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible
revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic
and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a
complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely
moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make
this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Roger Malvin's Burial," "The Artist of the Beautiful," "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." Reprinted from standard texts, tales deal with scientific experiment, witchcraft, revenge, the power of guilt, more. Publisher's Note.
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If I Run
(Hardcover)
Brandy Bennett-Baker
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The Maias
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Eca De Queiroz; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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R545
Discovery Miles 5 450
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The Perdurables
(Hardcover)
Morgan G Farris; Illustrated by Morgan G Farris
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R714
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Discovery Miles 6 730
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Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by
E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is one of the
most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming
charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density.
Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a
novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all
levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the
irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends tragically, and
there is much that evokes despair, yet set beside this is an
abounding joy in life's many ephemeral pleasures, and a profusion
of comic relief.
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