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454 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Overview: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. At its center are Catherine and Heathcliff, and the self-contained world of Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and the wild Yorkshire moors that the characters inhabit. "I am Heathcliff," Catherine declares. In her introduction Janet Gezari examines Catherine's assertion and in her notes maps it to questions that flicker...
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474 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In a reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws' loyal servant, young Nelly Dean suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most and discovers what it is to know true sacrifice after a new heir is born.
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1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
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English
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Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion of Wuthering Heighths as an orphan child. Cathy is the daughter of the wealthy family that takes him in. They are drawn together from the moment they meet, their love consuming, destructive, and full of desire. They cannot be together, and yet they cannot stay apart. The consequences will haunt generations.
10) Emily Brontë
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112 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
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English
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La poderosa y hosca figura de Heathcliff domina Cumbres Borrascosas, novela apasionada y tempestuosa cuya sensibilidad se adelantó a su tiempo. Los brumosos y sombríos páramos de Yorkshire son el singular escenario donde se desarrolla con fuerza arrebatadora esta historia de venganza y odio, de pasiones desatadas y amores desesperados que van más allá de la muerte y que hacen de ella una de las obras más singulares y atractivas de todos los...
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Their names are synonymous with some of English literature's most timeless and celebrated novels. The real life story of the famous Bronte sisters, however, is steeped in even greater controversy and heartbreak than the lives of their tragic characters.
15) Emily
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel." --
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293 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines -- it's seeing what is not there."
Yorkshire, 1845. A young wife and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind two small children and a...
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