Many fictional houses that we remember and that are as important as the stories that take place within its walls. Some are even fundamental and have a life of their own or affect decisively to those of the characters who live in them, they are even delighted. In this article we will walk through a few, from the famous mansions of Wuthering Heights o Manderley via Thornfield Hall o Mileage and ending in the 221b Baker Street. Surely we all stayed for a while.
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Wuthering Heights — Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte
It's just one of the fictional houses most famous of universal literature and also gives the title to the best-known novel by its author, who published it in 1847. The dramatic story it tells takes place in a environment as closed as isolated that entangles in the same way the relationships of its characters. This environment is delimited between two mansions that are also two completely opposite worlds: Wuthering Heights and Thrush Farm.
The first is from the family of earnshaw, a gloomy and hostile place where those human relations are full of aggressiveness, lack of hospitality and rancor, but also an exacerbated passion between the two main characters of the novel, Heathcliff and Katherine. And the Farm of the Thrushes, of the Linton, is the opposite, oozes kindness and good manners. But outside of its walls and perimeters we don't know anything else and all those who arrive, especially Wuthering Heights, end up catching that suffocating environment.
Thornfield Hall— Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte
We do not change the environment in this other fictional house that also belongs to the Brontë family. In the immense mansion of Thornfield Hall one of those unforgettable stories of love and passion between two of the best characters created in the genre: the reserved and brooding sir edward rochester and the determined and strong Jane Eyre. But the mansion also hides a drama decisive in the direction of that romance.
Usher House — The Fall of the House of Usherby Edgar Allan Poe
Only the title is no longer said, it already tells us the end of this well-known fictional house as well. Is one of the author's most famous works and one of the best stories of haunted mansions that direct the destiny of their inhabitants and owners, the unbalanced Usher brothers.
manderley Rebeccaby Daphne du Marier
The beginning of this novel already says it all, which is perhaps best known for the magnificent adaptation made by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. Manderley is the mansion-castle which Mr. De Winter's diffident second wife arrives to find the shadow of Cardigan, his first wife, is too long and full of secrets and mystery.
Last night I dreamed that I was returning to Manderley. She was at the iron gate, but he couldn't get in. Then, he imbued me with a supernatural power.
How to Live Aligned with curiosity, Daphne du Maurier was inspired by a royal house, Menabilly Manor, in Cornwall, which he first visited in 1926 for a few vacation relatives. As can be seen in the film, a forest hid the entrance to the house, which also seemed abandoned by its owner, Dr. John rashleigh. Much later, with the money he earned from the Hitchcock movie and a state fund to restore the mansion, the writer rented it and she lived there for over twenty-five years until her tenancy ended and she had to be returned to the Rashleighs.
Tare — gone With the Windby Margaret Mitchell
And how can we forget about it? Best-known mansion and plantation in the American South, home of the powerful O'Hara, which also marks and is linked to the fate of its inhabitants, especially Scarlet, the protagonist. This was an example of the film adaptation of a novel far exceeding its literary original.
221b Baker Street— Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
If you are fond of Sherlock Holmes and you go to London, it is impossible that you do not go through this address. Because that's where Conan Doyle put the residence of his most immortal character. The building, as he described it, is a victorian house three-story house full of antiques inside.
Hill House— The curse of Hill Houseby Shirley Jackson
We end this review of some fictional houses with this novel, a classic of psychological terror, which signed what was Stephen King's mentor and possibly the female reference name of the genre. It is also inspired in part by one of the most famous haunted houses in the United States, the Winchester Mansion. And, of course, it has been brought to cinema.
tells us the story of Dr. Montague, anthropologist who wants to investigate the mansion and see if the haunted reputation it has is true.