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台灣大學外文教授 蔡秀枝 專文導讀
十八世紀英格蘭北部的約克郡,咆哮山莊的老主人恩蕭先生在一次商旅中,帶回一個身分不明的吉普賽男孩,並且收養了他。恩蕭先生替小男孩取名希斯克里夫, 對他寵愛有加;引發了恩蕭長子辛德利對希斯克里夫的不滿與仇視。當辛德利繼承了咆哮山莊後,為了報復被奪去的父愛,他將希斯克里夫貶為僕人。可是妹妹凱瑟 琳卻和希斯克里夫逐漸發展出曖昧的情感。
在一次的出遊意外中,凱瑟琳因緣際會認識了畫眉田莊的繼承人艾德加,因而漸漸冷落了希斯克里夫;難過又憤怒的希斯克里夫在一個暴風雨之夜離開了咆哮山莊。
三年後,希斯克里夫重返咆哮山莊時,已經是一名富商,但凱瑟琳已嫁給艾德加,成了畫眉田莊的少夫人。希斯克里夫雖然深愛著凱瑟琳,卻又恨她嫁給艾德加,矛盾的情感使他的行為越來越偏激,逐漸展開一連串的復仇行動……
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One wild, snowy night on the Yorkshire moors, a gentleman asks about Wuthering Heights, the remote farmhouse inhabited by his mysterious landlord. He is told about the tragic romance of the beautiful, headstrong Cathy and the orphan Heathcliff, who - although desperately in love her - is rejected in favour of a rich suitor. But Cathy cannot forget him, and he develops a lust for revenge that will take over his life as he attempts to win her back, and to destroy everyone, and everything, he considers responsible for his loss.
One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Emily Brontë's haunting tale of passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of destructive love.
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