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Heathcliff s Tale
brings together a ghost story, a depiction of the marriage of
Heathcliff and Isabella, and a satire on Bronte academic studies. Facts
and fiction are intertwined as are confronted with the enigma of Emily
Bronte. How could a young woman with no apparent experience of passion
or knowledge of evil, have summoned up Heathcliff?I> is the story of
the haunting of Henry Newby, a young man despatched to Haworth Parsonage
shortly after the death of Emily Bronte to retrieve a novel by Ellis
Bell for his uncle, publisher of Wuthering Heights. He soon finds
himself adrift in a sea of possibilities: are the pages which burn on
the study fire the work of fiction which his uncle awaits, or, as he
believes, do they comprise the confessions of a wicked man, a murderer
who has brought destruction and misery to all he meets? Who is this
Heathcliff who spills his black soul among the flames and ashes?
Heathcliff s Tale< >
Heathcliff s Tale
brings together a ghost story, a depiction of the marriage of
Heathcliff and Isabella, and a satire on Bronte academic studies. Facts
and fiction are intertwined as are confronted with the enigma of Emily
Bronte. How could a young woman with no apparent experience of passion
or knowledge of evil, have summoned up Heathcliff?I> is the story of
the haunting of Henry Newby, a young man despatched to Haworth Parsonage
shortly after the death of Emily Bronte to retrieve a novel by Ellis
Bell for his uncle, publisher of Wuthering Heights. He soon finds
himself adrift in a sea of possibilities: are the pages which burn on
the study fire the work of fiction which his uncle awaits, or, as he
believes, do they comprise the confessions of a wicked man, a murderer
who has brought destruction and misery to all he meets? Who is this
Heathcliff who spills his black soul among the flames and ashes?
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