Wrought iron has been used as a decorative element in architecture from the eleventh century to the twentieth. At first a device to strengthen & embellish doors wrought iron was soon adopted for free-standing screens & railings examples of which can still be seen in churches & cathedrals. At the end of the seventeenth century iron screens gates & railings became a fashionable element of country & town houses resulting in the most creative period of decorative ironwork. The cheaper technique of cast iron led to a subsequent decline in wrought iron although the latter underwent a revival at the end of the nineteenth century led by influential architects such as William Burges & Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ...

Village rectories the traditional family homes of church ministers have had a long association with writers in Britain. For many the Georgian rectory nestling against an historic church immediately evokes a scene from a Jane Austen novel for others it conjures up something much darker the parsonage at Haworth where the Bronte sisters were confined. In this engaging book Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult & from which they drew inspiration. Each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage & the effect it had on them. The story is often heartwarming with amateur theatricals & games of tennis but in several cases it is a tale where the serene exterior belies the tensions within but it was those very tensions that yielded some of our greatest poetry & literature. ...

Emily Bronte's only novel a work of tremendous & far-reaching influence the Penguin Classics" edition of " Wuthering Heights" is the definitive edition of the text edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff & Catherine Earnshaw; & how Catherine forced to choose between passionate tortured Heathcliff & gentle well-bred Edgar Linton surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness & vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. In this edition a new preface by Lucasta Miller author of " The Bronte Myth" looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted from Charlotte Bronte onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel as well as Emily Bronte's influences & background. Emily Bronte (1818-48) along with her sisters Charlotte & Anne was one of the most significant literary figures of the 19th century. She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel " Wuthering Heights" but was also a gifted & intense poet. If you enjoyed " Wuthering Heights" you may like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre also available in " Penguin Classics". "' Wuthering Heights" is commonly thought of as "romantic" but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Bronte's characters subject one another to extremes of physical & psychological violence." (Jeanette Winterson). " As a first novel there is very little that can compare to it. Even Shakespeare took over a decade to reach the clifftop extremities of King Lear" (Sarah Waters)." ...

Wuthering Heights is a wild passionate story of the intense & almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw & Heathcliff a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death Heathcliff is bullied & humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley & wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated leaves Wuthering Heights only to return years later as a wealthy & polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic & unremittingly violent but the accomplished handling of a complex structure the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting & the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. ...

'I am Heathcliff
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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics. ' Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so is he mad? & if not is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights the home of his new landlord Heathcliff. The intense & wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw & the doomed outcome of that relationship leading to his revenge. Poetic complex & grand in its scope Emily Bronte's masterpiece is considered one of the most unique gothic novels of its time. ...

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Lockwood the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff & Catherine Earnshaw & her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff's bitterness & vengeance is visited upon the next generation their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. ...

One of the greatest love stories ever told beautifully repackaged for a modern teen audience Love the Twilight books? Then youll adore Wuthering Heights one of the greatest love stories ever told. Cathy & Heathcliff childhood friends are cruelly separated by class fate & the actions of others. But uniting them is something even stronger: an all-consuming passion that sweeps away everything that comes between them. Even death! My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks " said Cathy. "I am Heathcliff."" ...

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Includes: a fascinating insight into Emily Bronte & her novel by her sister Charlotte the author of Jane Eyre.
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