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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë,

Pauline Nestor (Editor/Introduction),

Lucasta Miller (Preface)

Start date: August 1, 2026

Finish date: August 31, 2026

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Jan 07, 2009 Christian rated it it was ok · review of another edition

It's a very gloomy and depressing book. I'm not quite sure why it's such a classic. My least favorite Brontë book so far. ...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Amanda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fiction, teacher-reads, classics, exit-pursued-by-bear, ap-literature, 5-stars

2018 Spring:

Another read for my Seniors off the 35 Most Read AP Lit Test books, and this one for the 2nd/3rd time in my life. While I understand why people deeply love this as the most tragic love story (that isn't Romeo & Juliet), I don't really see much of a truly helpful romance or even filial tale: except by the merits of doing the opposite of everything you see within these pages.

Though, as a premier note that earns it's own full star for me, I adore the level of vocabulary used in this n ...more

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Jan 06, 2017 Charlotte Clementine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, classics, british

A true masterpiece.
I don't think I can write a review that would correctly express how I feel about this novel.
In short, I loved everything about it, its intensity, its atmosphere, how brilliantly Emily Brontë writes about passion, desire, hatred, the yearning for revenge and for love.
I do tend to be particularly fascinated by the type of love stories that are dramatic and destructive, that burn and destroy everything and everyone standing too close, so of course, this is a perfect fit.
I will l ...more

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