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I cannot be rational about this book. I loved it when I first read it circa 1957, I loved it more when I taught it in 1969, I re-read it again sometime in the 90's to see whether it still was as good as I remembered and it stood up well. It is one of my favourite books despite my usual distaste for the Gothic. It deserves its place as one of my top ten of all time.
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Well, I think I liked it better than Jane Eyre. When I put it in perspective of the time period, I can see that it was quite a breakthrough of drama. But I just never believed that (view spoiler). It was a stretch for me and I just had to go with it. I did love the (view spoiler). I can see how striking that would have been at that time, given that the society was so reserved. I
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I had to study this for my literature course in school. It was a vim that divided the class very much along gender lines. The girls were all meSmerised by Heathcliff but of course the boys all thought it was far too unbelievable and recoiled at all the emotional stuff. The first half showed some powerful if rather melodramatic scenery and characters. The second part with the younger Catherine wasn't anywhere near as interesting. Yet I can still remember passages and actual quotes even 30 years l
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Talk about the original dysfunctional families!! It's embarrassing to just be reading this for the first time at my age but at least I read it. This was so different than what I expected and it was difficult to read--especially the dialogue from the Irish groundsman. But....I'm very glad that I read it!
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