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Cumbres borrascosas

Name: Cumbres borrascosas
Author: Emily Brontë

Título en inglés: Wuthering Heights

de Emily Brontë · texto original completo

34 capítulos
119.166 palabras
unos 917 min

Una casa de campo solitaria se alza en los páramos de Yorkshire. Allí, un niño huérfano llamado Heathcliff crece junto a Catherine Earnshaw, y los dos se convierten en amigos salvajes e inseparables. Cuando Catherine elige otra vida, el amor de Heathcliff se transforma en una venganza que perdura durante dos generaciones.

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1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord, the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven, and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

"Mr. Heathcliff?" I said.

A nod was the answer.

"Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts—"