Wuthering Heights in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Oct 22, 2008 lisa_emily rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books, 2015-read, woc

3rd reading: 2015

I read this again because I had just read an essay by Bataille about evil in literature and Wuthering Heights was the first book he discussed and I was surprised – I had never considered WH having any evil. But Bataille made some good points about the obsessiveness of the relationship between Catherine & Heathcliff –their profound desire to return to the wildness of childhood and how their relationship borders on a mystical religious absorption and other complicated things. In a ...more

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Jun 30, 2025 Megan rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, re-read, classics

3.5; I decided to re-read this one after finishing and loving “The Favorites,” which was kind of a modern retelling of Wuthering Heights. I last read it when I was assigned it in high school and hated it, my hope was that re-reading as an adult would change my opinion. For the re-read, I still was not a huge fan, and I think some of that may be due to marketing. This is not a love story, it’s a story about calculated revenge and manipulation. I do understand why high school English teachers love ...more

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Nov 07, 2019 Maggie rated it did not like it

Honestly? Fairly boring even when I wasn’t disliking everyone. If this is a great example of gothic lit, I might skip the genre completely. Pretty disappointing.

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