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by Emily Brontë, Autri Books (Translator)

312 pages, Paperback

Published August 10, 2025

About the author

Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet whose singular contribution to literature, Wuthering Heights, is now celebrated as one of the most powerful and original novels in the English language. Born into the remarkable Brontë family on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire, she was the fifth of six children of Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman. Her early life was marked by both intellectual curiosity and profound loss. After the death of her mother in 1821 and the subsequent deaths of her two eldest sisters in 1825, Emily and her surviving siblings— Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell—were raised in relative seclusion in the moorland village of Haworth, where their imaginations flourished in a household shaped by books, storytelling, and emotional intensity.
The Brontë children created elaborate fictional worlds, notably Angria and later Gondal, which served as an outlet for their creative energies. Emily, in particular, gravitated toward Gondal, a mysterious, windswept imaginary land she developed with her sister Anne. Her early poetry, much of it steeped in the mythology and characters of Gondal, demonstrated a remarkable lyrical force and emotional depth. These poems remained private until discovered by Charlotte in 1845, after which Emily reluctantly agreed to publish them in the 1846 collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, using the pseudonym Ellis Bell to conceal her gender. Though the volume sold few copies, critics identified Emily’s poems as the strongest in the collection, lauding her for their music, power, and visionary quality.
Emily was intensely private and reclusive by nature. She briefly attended schools in Cowan Bridge and Roe Head but was plagued by homesickness and preferred the solitude of the Yorkshire moors, which inspired much of her work. She worked briefly as a teacher but found the demands of the profession exhausting. She also studied in Brussels with Charlotte in 1842, but again found herself alienated and yearning for home. Throughout her life, Emily remained closely bonded with her siblings, particularly Anne, and with the landscape of Haworth, where she drew on the raw, untamed beauty of the moors for both her poetry and her fiction.
Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847, a year after the poetry collection, under her pseudonym Ellis Bell. Initially met with a mixture of admiration and shock, the novel’s structure, emotional intensity, and portrayal of violent passion and moral ambiguity stood in stark contrast to the conventions of Victorian fiction. Many readers, unable to reconcile its power with the expected gentility of a woman writer, assumed it had been written by a man. The novel tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw—two characters driven by obsessive love, cruelty, and vengeance—and explores themes of nature, the supernatural, and the destructive power of unresolved emotion. Though controversial at the time, Wuthering Heights is now considered a landmark in English literature, acclaimed for its originality, psychological insight, and poetic vision.
Emily's personality has been the subject of much speculation, shaped in part by her sister Charlotte’s later writings and by Victorian biographies that often sought to romanticize or domesticate her character. While some accounts depict her as intensely shy and austere, others highlight her fierce independence, deep empathy with animals, and profound inner life. She is remembered as a solitary figure, closely attuned to the rhythms of the natural world, with a quiet but formidable intellect and a passion for truth and freedom. Her dog, Keeper, was a constant companion and, according to many, a window into her capacity for fierce, loyal love.
Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis on 19 December 1848 at the age of thirty, just a year after the publication of her novel. Her early death, following those of her brother Branwell and soon to

Reviews

[Anastasija · Rating 5 out of 5]

Čitala sam uporedo i srpsku verziju da bih mogla da kompletno razumem opise pejzaža i zbog mnogo fraza i situacija za koje sam zbunila da li se zapravo dešavaju. Moglo bi se reći da su opisi bili isto tako kompleksni i savršeni da su i na srpskom zahtevali da se čitaju više puta. Emocija je drugačija definitivno, neke fraze su jače na engleskom poput “You said I killed you, haunt me then” ali onda opet je i srpski prevod “ovaj čovek se i smrti ceri” - Joseph pri Heathcliffovoj smrti. Ali je na neki čudan način tužno što se u srpskoj verziji ne vidi Josephov karakter kroz njegov Yorkshire akcenat i koliko je on zaludjen religijom. Svakako 5/5, bila je veoma flowy za čitanje, uživala sam iako je radnja sama po sebi veoma intrigantna i uznemiravajuća. Moje lično shvatanje je da je ovo psihološki roman, iako je iz viktorijanske književnosti Emily Brontë je predstavila čoveka kom je posle toliko trauma iz detinjstva i deluzivne ljubavne opsesije trebalo dosta dosta terapije, ali sve je bilo u njegov izboru i odlukama iz čega ja zaključujem da nikako ne sme da se romantizuje bilo šta u vezi sa njim. Tragičan je, ali put koji je izabrao da se sveti sledećoj krvnoj liniji je diabolical.