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Question: Wuthering Heights - Final Paragraph!?
I just finished the book and found myself repeating this line over and over in my head, I love it - It has taken the top spot of my favorite lines in literature, but I still know little of its meaning!.

"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth!."


also, why does the original printed version of the novel say it is written by Ellis Bell (I think that's it)!. And can you recommend any more novels (or plays) that you've enjoyed!?

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"!.!.!.how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth"

I think it means this: The place looked so lovely that it was hard to believe the people buried in that place had been so rotten and were probably now burning in hell!.

Recommend: Everything by Jane Austen, if you haven't read it yet!. Anything by Alexandre Dumas - perhaps the Count of Monte Cristo!? I love Dumas!. Victor Hugo is also wonderful - the Hunchback of Notre Dame!. If you are really ambitious, you could try War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - it took me months to get through it, but it was good!.

Ellis Bell was a pen name that she used so that people would think the book was written by a man!. Back then, women writers often used masculine pen names - George Elliot for example!. Speaking of which, you could also read Elliot's book, Middlemarch!.Www@QuestionHome@Com



Its been a long time since I read this so, I'm going to take a stab at this!. I looked this up at sparknotes!.com and I found the following :

"The young lovers now return to the house from outside, and Lockwood feels an overpowering desire to leave!. He hurriedly exits through the kitchen, tossing a gold sovereign to Joseph on his way out!. He finds his way through the wild moors to the churchyard, where he discovers the graves of Edgar, Catherine, and Heathcliff!. Although the villagers claim that they have seen Heathcliff's ghost wandering about in the company of a second spirit, Lockwood wonders how anyone could imagine unquiet slumbers for the persons that lie in such quiet earth!."

Ellis Bell was her alias because in those days novels by women were not printed !.

Have you read Jane Eyre!? by her sister Charlotte Bronte
then you must read "wide sargasso sea" by jean rys

*its the first half of jane eyre written in the 1970s interpetation!.

Miss Juile ( a play) by August Strindberg

A Month of Sundays by John Updike ( I think) is a very interesting novel

how old are you!? I have tons more I could suggestWww@QuestionHome@Com

Diamond girl has it right!.

Shortly before this passage, Nelly had mentioned to Lockwood that a young boy from the village had told her that he had seen the ghost of Heathcliff and "some woman" while traveling the road!.

When Lockwood went to visit the graves, it was such a quiet, peaceful scene that he couldn't imagine that they wouldn't be completely at peace!.

The name is "Ellis Bell" is because it was frowned on for women to be writers at the time!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

My interpretation is that they're questioning how anyone could believe that the dead are truly dead when there is so much life in the world!.

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte!.

If you like Wuthering Heights, you might like Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas HardyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Women, during that time, were not accepted as authors!. Bronte had to use a pen name!. It's a wonderful story, isn't it!? Have you tried her sister's book "Jane Eyre" yet!? TWWww@QuestionHome@Com