Wuthering Heights

ヨークシャー高原に吹く風は強い。風が吹くのを遮る木立はほとんどなく、家はなお少ない。だが、ただ一軒だけ、風をまともに受ける家がある。その家は、丘のてっぺんにあって、風が思うままに吹くのに挑むかのようだ。その家は「嵐が丘」と呼ばれている。アーンショー氏が見知らぬ小さな色の黒い子供を「嵐が丘」に連れて来て、悲劇への扉を開けることになる。彼は、ヨークシャーに吹く風と同様、家に入れない方がよいものを招き入れてしまったのだ。

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.