I should n't care what you suffered. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do. You have killed me and thriven on it. While you are a beast, i shall ride in the torments of hell. Heathcliff, i only wish us never to be parted. Distress you hereafter think i feel the same distress underground for my own sake. Forgive me. If you nurse anger, that will be the worse to remember than my harsh words. Won'tyo here again. Do you teach me how cruel you've been? Cruel and false. Cathy, i've not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You've killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed with Austen’s niceties and the upper-middle class drawing rooms of Bath and the home counties. Her backdrop is the savage Yorkshire moors, her subject the all-consuming passions of the heart. To help you decide who should be crowned queen of English letters we have the lined up the best advocates to make the case for each writer. In this event, chaired by author and critic Erica Wagner, we invited guests including author Kate Mosse, Professor and author John Mullan, and actors Mariah Gale, Samuel West and Dominic West, to discuss each writer's influence.
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