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I know that for many, Wuthering Heights, with the volcanic Heathcliff/Catherine romance at its center, is a cornerstone of 19th century English literature. I had a hard time following the characters (3 Catherines, 3 Lintons, etc) whose confusion of names probably is an allegory to the misty wastes of the English moors where Emily and her sisters grew up and where the novel takes place. There was an interesting Russian doll narrative technique of stories within stories, but the high drama never r
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I was so relieved to be done with this book. I'm giving it three stars simply for literary technique. I didn't care for any of the characters at all. I felt sorry for them during their childhood, detested them as teenagers, and wanted nothing to do with them as adults. There's melodrama and mutually destructive relationships galore. And like in all Victorian (and a few other periods) literature, if someone goes out in the rain and catches a cold they will die! Or they will be permanently weakene
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NookBook-M @ 2004, 8/13. The classic novel of Heathcliff and Catherine... Love and hate, envy and jealousy, revenge and violence. Read it first years ago, wanted to see if my maturity gave me a different perspective. Black novel surprisingly written by a woman in a time when women weren't supposed to write, and about a subject young unmarried women weren't supposed to know about! Hard to read, needed my dictionary alongside because of the English references, the biblical references and the style
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