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Heathcliff's Tale (Paperback)

by Emma Tennant (Author)
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  • Paperback: 167 pages
  • Publisher: The Tartarus Press (22 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1872621929
  • ISBN-13: 978-1872621920
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 689,888 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lucasta Miller - Times Literary Supplement
'As an imaginative response to Wuthering Heights her beautifully crafted tale is wonderfully engaged and engaging.'

Synopsis
Emma Tennant's new novel, Heathcliff's Tale, brings together a chilling ghost story, a literary mystery, and a satire of Bronte academic studies. It is the story of the haunting of Henry Newby, a hapless young lawyer 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? Fact and fiction are intertwined as we 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? Can evil be passed from one generation to the next? Or is it born out of deprivation and despair? Does it linger, long after the death of the evil-doer - and can it haunt chillingly through the pages of a book?

Heathcliff's Tale is grippingly atmospheric and a rattling good read, and should appeal to the general reader, literary aficionado and ghost story enthusiast alike.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Lady Augusta's door..., 18 Mar 2006
By Steven Cain (Temporal Quantum Pocket) - See all my reviews
This is an interesting retro novel which fills in some of the gaps in the Heathcliff saga, amongst other things, and while I don't buy the Byron-obsessed-Branwell-inspired-Heathcliff suggestion, I still enjoyed the writing itself.

Newby's bungling nephew is the source of many good laughs, and it is this humour that really caries Emma's 'what-if' in the face of traditional hostility to Bronte prequels/sequels.

The only technical questionables that arose for me were a) Newby refers to Top Withins/Withens as being a ruined farmhouse during the 1850's period, whereas there are photos of the fully complete and still-occupied Top Withens on the Bronte sites that were taken in the 1920's; and b) Newby writes about pacing the Haworth graveyard and seeing Branwell's headstone, while as far as I know, Branny was buried in the family vault under Haworth Church, as were all of the family except Anne, who was buried at Scarborough.

Regarding the question: 'how could Emily have written a novel like Wuthering Heights, and created such a powerful character as Heathcliff?'; I fail to see how any simple sexual liaison with a mere mortal, whether it be Branwell, a gypsy lover, or a weaver's son, could explain why this erratically-educated woman from an obscure Yorkshire village, could have created the Mona Lisa of Gothic novels - a novel that is still being lauded in academic circles some 160 years later.

Wuthering is clearly more than the sum of the parts. To me, it is entirely possible that Emily created the entire story arc from her imagination. Yes, she was simply a genius.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!, 25 Aug 2005
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Clever and endlessly inventive. You don't have to be a great Bronte fan to enjoy ET's sly take on Wuthering Heights.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Fabulous Read, 9 May 2005
I never thought I'd want to revisit Wuthering Heights described by anyone other than Emily Bronte, but Emma Tennant has brought off a truly original ghost story in which the Brontes and Emily's fictional characters haunt a naive young man when he stumbles into their world. Its wonderful to have the gaps filled in and I found Heathcliff and Cathy's love making intensely erotic.
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