The novel is told by two narrators who swap backwards and forwards. It's a story of obsession, yes, but it's also a story of ghosts,. And the first extract that i am then to hand over to the wonderful actors comes from very, very early on in the novel, in chapter three. A man called lockwood has come to this part of yorkshire and has taken a house, a beautiful grange. He finds her set up with a young girl who appears to be the mistress of the house. She married a boy that appears to be somehow connectedA master of the house - heathcliff. There are no delineation between the servants and the people who run
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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