Les Hauts de Hurlevent

Name: Les Hauts de Hurlevent
Author: Emily Brontë

Titre anglais: Wuthering Heights

par Emily Brontë · texte original complet

34 chapitres
119 166 mots
environ 917 min

Une ferme isolée se dresse sur les landes du Yorkshire. Là, un garçon orphelin appelé Heathcliff grandit aux côtés de Catherine Earnshaw, et les deux deviennent des amis sauvages et inséparables. Lorsque Catherine choisit une autre vie, l'amour de Heathcliff se transforme en une vengeance qui dure deux générations.

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1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord, the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven, and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

"Mr. Heathcliff?" I said.

A nod was the answer.

"Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts—"