Wuthering Heights

by Clare West (Retold by), Emily Brontë

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.

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Oxford Bookworms take students through six stages toward real reading in English. Each one has been chosen for its enjoyment vale and its quality of writing.

Genres: Classics, Romantic, Short Stories, Literature

91 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

Clare West has over twenty years' TEFL classroom experience in the UK and overseas, and has led workshops for teachers in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Greece, and Argentina. For most of her teaching career she was involved with long-stay students on Cambridge examination courses, and engaged in the development of strategies to improve students' reading and writing skills.

She is now a freelance author, with a special interest in the literary and cultural aspects of language learning. Current writing projects include contributing to the Oxford Bookworms Library and Dominoes series, writing supplementary materials such as grammar workbooks, as well as being the Series Editor for the Oxford Bookworms Playscripts series.

Reviews

[Martina Gjomemo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very unusual story! At first I thought was a little bit insane, I mean he destroyed others life just for money!

[Jari Van · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wrote the book ‘Wuthering heights’ from Emily Brontë. It’s an emotional story but often hard to understand. The story is about two families, the family Linton and the family Earnshaw, who lives in old houses and they have quarrel with each other. It is situated around the 18th century.
The story begins with Lockwood, He rents a house from Heathcliff and the housekeeper of Heathcliff tells him the story about the two families. That’s a little bit hard to understand in the begin. Heathcliff is actually an orphan, that was brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. The real son of Earnshaw hated the orphan immediately but his daughter Catherine likes Heathcliff more than she likes herself. Catherine and Heathcliff went to Thrushcross Grange, that is the house of the family Linton, to play secretly with each other. Catherine was bitten by a dog and the family Linton asks her to come in and to nurse the wounds. When she came back to Wuthering Heights five weeks later, she acts whole different. Catherine acts like a real lady. That’s the start of the story and from then on Catherine dumps Heathcliff for her new boyfriend, the son of Mr. Earnshaw. Heathcliff’s heart is broken and wants to revenge Catherine.
It’s a very emotional story and normally, I have a lot of trouble to read a book attentive, but I hadn’t the same problem with this book. The story is written like that, so you want to know what is gone happen next that you keep on reading. That’s a very good thing about the book. As everything, this book has drawbacks too. Like I said, the book is written like that so the housekeeper of Heathcliff is telling the story to Lockwood. That’s sometimes difficult to understand. In the beginning of this book, you also meet a lot of characters and throughout the story it’s sometimes hard to separate these from each other.
I would totally recommend this book to everyone. If you love reading or not, doesn’t matter. It such a good story and such an emotional one that it’s a pleasure to read it, even if you don’t like reading books. That was the same here but I have read this story with lots of attention.

[Mitchie Baudelaire]

Wicked and miserable.
The ending incest was final nail in the coffin of this one.

[Lucia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jako dobra skraćena verzija, ali svejedno mislim da treba pročitat cijelu knjigu kako bi se ova priča doživjela u potpunosti.

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

The version I listened to couldn't be located on Goodreads. It was on Youtube as read by Ruth Golding. I enjoyed the enthusiastic voices Golding created for each character. As for the book itself, it came across as a very "woe is me" dreary Victorian soap opera, but very well done for what it was, the intertwining romances and tragedies within Wuthering Heights. The back and forth between the different relationships of the characters and how they evolved (or devolved) over the years, cross pollinated with English class politics, made it rise above the schlock later to derive from this genre.

[Radhika Chauhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I loved about this book was the genius way in which the darkness which lies inside mere humans was depicted in a gothic style. No murders, no gore, yet the characters are shaped with such definiteness and sharpness that they give a chill to the reader.

[Zeeshan Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it. This is a retelling of the original story, and I found it to be a wonderful one.

[radvile ✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡ ˚]

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[Subayna · Rating 4 out of 5]

""Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights".
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I personally am the dark academia kind of reader who loves classics and dies for anything written by Oscar Wilde. This book was something i was gifted by a friend during freshman year of high school & surprisingly I remember all my friends talking about this book during English literature class and I just ignored and never actually picked it up to read. After several years i finally picked it up today and I liked it. However, i think i personally would have enjoyed the original published edition which is more detailed written. I do like the concept of this Gothic dark love story and i think i would even have cried if i read the detailed version. I look forward to getting my hand's on it. And Cathy is now always and forever in my thoughts..

[Isabella Ney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Die Geschichte von Heathcliff und Cathy - schon oft verfilmt, oft gehört und oft gelesen.

Heathcliff der als Ziehsohn in Cathys Familie aufgenommen wird, wird vom Sohn der Familie und auch von den Bediensteten getriezt. Er wird als dunkler Typ bzw. Roma beschrieben die diese Behandlung in der Geschichte rechtfertigen.
Cathy und Heathcliff lieben sich, kommen aber nie zusammen, heiraten beide jemand anderen und Heathcliff rächt sich an Cathys Familie.

Klassiker hin oder her, ich finde die Geschichte grausam, brutal und in keinster Weise romantisch. Sturmhöhe bzw. Wuthering Heights ist Emily Brontes einziger Roman. Emily Bronte hatte wohl ziemliche gesundheitliche bzw. psychische Probleme, sonst kann ich mir den Roman nicht erklären.

[Hibbe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Obviously the original novel that I read three times before, is much and much more powerful, but rather than reading it for the fourth time, I decided to read this shortened version just to recall the most important events. It did bring back the same emotions I had with this novel, and I cannot say enough how much I love the story.

[Vika · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read this book several times before. I like romantic stories from English countryside and I like the books from the Bronte sisters. The story is unusual and a bit gothic and at the end there is happy end too.

[Dayyana · Rating 5 out of 5]

All I can say is...crazy.

Another meaningful achievement:) Dude is revengeful until 3 generations of two families, scary 🥲 He intents to wipe out the whole families. luckily, he died when there's only 2 survivors from his hideous intention.

[Nafea Mohsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice and unexpected story

[sabiha ㅤ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Engin Gold Star Classics - Wuthering Heights Stage 6 okudum. İngilizce özetiydi ve oldukça basitti. O kitabı bulamadığım için bunu ekliyorum.

[I am in bookland · Rating 2 out of 5]

A quite strange story. I haven't made my opinion yet. I'm a bit disappointed, even though I like the adaptation of the book bc I suppose the classic one is more difficult to understand.

[Josh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. The childish characters and flowery language kept me at the edge of my seat—a great work of gothic literature. Hate the protagonist tho.

[Olga Zheleznaykova · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very depressive

[Angela♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Kristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not that bad

[Postmodjane · Rating 5 out of 5]

(The original text is) A real must read.
Deep, unique, special representstion about love, hate, nature, culture, lonleliness, friendship, so about Life.

[⋆ ˚luxa⋆୨୧˚ · Rating 4 out of 5]

what a novel

[Natalia · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5 ⭐️

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Todos en este libro tienen serios problemas mentales. Se me hizo eterno, aunque al final terminó por gustarme todo el dramatismo.

[Jayden Andreas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Indeed, I have heard about the fame of "Wuthering Heights" and Emily Bronte. I even get a little bit of touch to the story, but don't have a chance to fully read this masterpiece. So when I first saw this book, I unhesitantly pick it; and it doesn't let me down. The entire book, in my opinion, is fairly easy to comprehend and acknowledge the plot of the story. Love and revenge are always interesting topic in medieval literature. The tragic love of Catherine and Heathcliff holds an important role in the story, which is fascinating. With the Ellen Dean's narrative voice as an observer, the story took an objective view, sometime biased. This is because Ellen can realize what, which and who is right or wrong; so the story sometimes lean to Catherine, sometimes lean to Edgar or sometime lean to Heathcliff. Also, there is one other feature which I really like about this book. Since Wuthering Heights would be easily got caught in confusion because of the twisted character tree, Clare West carefully lists every characters and sorts into four different categories which is a brilliant idea.
Overall, the book is fairly comprehensive and the story is easy to tag along. It is very suitable for reader before choosing to buy an original "Wuthering Heights" of Emily Bronte

[Derryck Osbourne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was really glad when my teacher told me about the Read On! Project. I have no trouble reading books of this level as I've been reading books for years now. I'm really glad because this project gave me the chance to read a lot, although the books are really thin.

This is just my first book and it took me a while before I could start reading it as I've just bought a book when I borrowed this one from school.

The only doubt that I have about these books is.. Is it really worth it? Wuthering Heights was great, this kind of plot, the emotions, and the characters. I love everything about it and I just can't imagine the difference between this and the original book!

I feel like I just did something wrong, like I've just read a spoiler.. this 87 pages story is just that short! Its as if I've just seen a part of the story.

I just have to buy the original one eh? Haha!

First book, wordcount (23,180)
Let's see if I can reach 1,000,000 words before the end of the school year :)

[Namiko]

I accidentally read this book twice. I had read it last year. Since I have read this story in another version as well, I had no trouble reading it- I sometimes troubles with memorizing names such as characters's name, places' or houses' while I'm reading English books. In this story especially, it could be confusing for me to know who's whose children. So this time I focused on the story itself and enjoyed it.


(my comment 2011/June/16)
This is another version of Wuthering Heights. I think they use simpler words than the one I had read. I didn't know Mr. Lockwood is young and Ellen expected him to be in love with Cathy.

[Benjamin Ferrier · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book amazing. The story is so dark and gloomy. It will please to those who like family stories. The plot is so complicated to follow , but the many deaths and twists & turns , makes you feel like knowing the end. Which is so sad , of course. But it couldn't have another , I was satisfied. Expect you to discover many treason and murders. The suspense is panting , you won't be able to put the book down , you're warn.
Everything is perfect except one thing. Like i said , the story is so complicated because of the many relations between the characters.
A very good choice.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

My first experience with Emily Bronte, and it was because this is required reading for my secondary school. It was probably wrong to introduce this story to a young crowd. The tale seems a tad dark. The obsessive theme coupled with the romance makes the tale somewhat confusing and difficult to connect with. Maybe I just need to re-read it now that I'm older.

[Vickie T · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favorite classic romance. Cathy and Heathcliffe's obsessive love intrigues me. I also wonder if Heathcliffe is the reason that so many of us like bad boys. Is this one of the places that we get that love of them.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book because it was required in my literature class. I'm not really sure if this is a love story because it's completely dark and the characters are selfish and bitter. I don't recommend this for young adults since it's hard to understand.