I Am Heathcliff: Stories Inspired by Wuthering Heights. Kate Mosse

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

       Foreword by Kate Mosse

      Terminus – Louise Doughty

      Anima – Grace McCleen

A Bird, Half-Eaten – Nikesh Shukla

Thicker Than Blood – Erin Kelly

       One Letter Different – Joanna Cannon

       The Howling Girl – Laurie Penny

       Five Sites, Five Stages – Lisa McInerney

       Kit – Juno Dawson

       My Eye Is a Button on Your Dress – Hanan al-Shaykh

       The Cord – Alison Case

       Heathcliffs I Have Known – Louisa Young

       Amulet and Feathers – Leila Aboulela

       How Things Disappear – Anna James

       The Wildflowers – Dorothy Koomson

       Heathcliff Is Not My Name – Michael Stewart

       Only Joseph – Sophie Hannah

       Footnotes

       Notes on the Contributors

       A Note on Emily Brontë

       About the Publisher

       FOREWORD BY KATE MOSSE

      ‘My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.’

      THERE IS A HANDFUL of books that exist beyond their time and space, beyond the circumstances of their invention: novels that are significant, novels that are beloved. Familiar friends. Their characters step off the pages of the novel and into the real world, into a public conscience to be used ever after as shorthand for a certain sort of person. Archetypes, I suppose. Stories that seem bigger than the books that contain them. Wuthering Heights is such a book. Cathy and Heathcliff are such characters.

      Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights is a novel that changes its character and colour with every reading, yet remains uniquely and absolutely itself. It is variously a Gothic novel of obsession and revenge; a story of ghosts and bad dreams; a novel of opposites – light and shade, wild Nature versus taming civilisation, storm versus calm, violence versus tenderness, revenge versus forgiveness, the North versus the South; a novel of race and class, of the powerlessness of women’s and children’s lives; a novel about poverty, property, and wealth; a novel about how the sins of the fathers (and dead or powerless mothers) are visited on the next generation; a story of two houses – Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange – on the Yorkshire Moors; a story of the shifting of time and how the land goes about its business indifferent to human emotions; a novel of order and disorder; of violence and the consequences of violence, of hate and the consequences of hate. Most of all, of course, it is СКАЧАТЬ