Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Bront#65533;, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance played out against the lonely moors of northern England, the book proved to be one of the most enduring classics of English … English literature.
The turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff spans two generations — from the time Heathcliff, a strange, coarse young boy, is brought to live on the Earnshaws’ windswept estate, through Cathy’s marriage to Edgar Linton and Heathcliff’s plans for revenge, to Cathy’s death years later and the eventual union of the surviving Earnshaw and Linton heirs.
A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, Wuthering Heights (the author’s only novel) remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
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LOVE THIS BOOK!! A dark, gothic romance. Incredibly twisted, beautiful love story!! Seriously, if you’re into that, you MUST read this!!
I am the first to admit, picking up this novel was a little daunting. I knew going in that the use of language would be far different to what I as a reader am used too, but I chose to pick it up anyway.
I must say, although I struggled at the beginning of this novel, I soon found that I was able to comprehend it, even though the use of language …
Classic novel with a disturbing romance that is addicting.
I empathize with Cathy and Heathcliffe. This isn’t a “happy” book or a “normal” couple, and neither are most people!
I’m a fan of classics, but not so much one of romance so I went into this book a little hesitant. I came out very pleasantly surprised though. This is an amazing book with both a complicated and fulfilling plot. My only grievance would be the names of the characters. Sometimes in the piece the similarity of the names would get confusing to the …
In what some would describe as a tragic love story, but I simply describe as tragic, Bronte brings to life the characters of Catherine, Heathclif, Ellen, and all of the rest. There is plenty of twisted revenge, loss, and misplaced love found all throughout the novel that is Wuthering Heights.
Although Bronte is a good writer, I did not find the …
As art collectors will tell you, sometimes it’s worth buying a painting just to own its marvelous frame. That said, Wuthering Heights is worth reading just to study its elaborate, marvelous frame. For reasons known mostly to the writer, Bronte decides Heathcliff and Cathy’s story should not come from either of them, or from the father who blighted the family by dumping a foundling in their midst one dark and stormy night. So she settles on a housekeeper who is removed enough from those dimly-recalled events to have some perspective and relies on her to tell the tale. Then she does a strange thing: instead of settling for two degrees of separation (a woman who knows the story somewhat second-hand, and not a family member), she adds a third degree by bringing a male day-tripper into the story who happens by the ruined property and witnesses a miserable scene between its latest generation of miserable inhabitants, and then asks to be told the story of what has befallen this obviously cursed clan. Joseph Conrad does a similar thing in Heart of Darkness when he has the story told not by the narrator, but by someone he meets on a dark night while waiting for the tide to turn so he can ship out. The storyteller is a venerable person named Marlowe who witnessed something terrible that happened not to him but another man named Kurtz. So again we have the three degrees of separation from the actual experience the story is about. Henry James also does it in The Turn of the Screw when the ghost story we hear comes not from the narrator, and not from the person who promises to tell the assembled company a heart-wrenching tale, but from a diary entrusted to the teller by an old woman on her death-bed who was once the young nanny the events actually occurred to. And Nathaniel Hawthorne does it again in The Scarlet Letter, where the story comes to us not from the adulteress Hester Prynne herself, and not from the person who recorded the proceedings of her trial, but from a clerk digging through about a century’s worth of financial statements and legal documents piled in an immense heap in the counting house where he works. In the case of all these classics, the three degrees of separation seems to work some spell on us so that we become more deeply compelled according to the number of hands the story has had to pass through to get to us. It’s almost as though the stories have gained their power because of the distance they’ve had to travel, a distance that doesn’t really exist, having been made up by the writer.
Read it at school. Read it maybe once a year. Still makes me cry.
One of my favourites. I read it in my mother tongue when I was 13, on the beach and I remade the covers because it was coming apart (the copy is so old) but I couldn’t resist buying an English copy too some months ago. That line ” Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same” touched my heart, but it remained buried somewhere in the back of my mind only to resurface when I read After last year.
I fell in love with this book in my teens and reread it every few years. My favorite.
Wuthering Heights is the book that made me fall in love with gothic literature. I love the haunting setting, the supernatural elements, and the flawed characters. There is a reason this book has stood the test of time.
This is still my favorite book of all time.
One of my all-time favorites.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Series: No
Format: Audio book
Stars: 4 1/2
Recommend: Yes
Would Reread: Maybe
I feel like I’m still trying to wrap my head around this book.
This book felt like a roller coaster ride.
At first it was “What in the world am I reading???”
Then : I hate this book!!”
And finally “oooohhhh, what an adventure that was O_o”.
Normally if I don’t like the characters I hate the book, but for some reason this time
I hated everybody but I found myself enjoying the book anyway.
So by the end I just let go of the bar and throw my hands in the air and enjoyed
the wild and crazy ride know as Wuhering Heights.
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I love especially the old English language used in this book, it is very interesting and beautiful and should be kept alive.
I didn’t like it or the main characters
It is a classic book that I didn’t even try to read until I was 27 years old. It was the first classic novel that I read since high school so it was kind of hard to catch on with the language at first but it is still a wonderful story that so many people in the world know. I felt like a normal human being after knowing how the story ended.
Just go for this book ….. It has been amazing book with very creatively nd beautifully written ….. You vl fall in love with this book for sure ……
Completely disappointed in this “classic”. The majority of the characters, especially Catherine and Heathcliff, are horrible people.
Hands down my favorite book.