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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Start date: March 1, 2023

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Nov 26, 2019 Kacie rated it really liked it

Shelves: i-own-a-copy

The marketing team for Wuthering Heights really needs to make it clear that this is NOT a romance. It is not romantic, either. Readers going into it expecting something akin to Elizabeth and Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice will be very surprised to discover how dark and disturbing this book is. Also? If Austen is Days of our Lives, Emily Bronte is Jerry Springer.

We have an unreliable narrator, and sometimes layers of second-hand narration. It can get confusing and especially at the be ...more

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Oct 05, 2017 Jim Townsend rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Wow. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Emily Bronte's (1818-48) only novel, set in the forbidding, stormy Yorkshire moors of northern England, is a brooding, dark story of hatred, betrayal, and thwarted passion. Far from being likeable, all the characters--from the execrable, father of all posterior orifices Heathcliff; the pious, hypocritical Joseph; the selfish, headstrong Catherines; the lying, manipulative wimp Linton Heathcliff; and the stern housekeepers Nelly and Zillah--d ...more

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Feb 10, 2020 Rianto Dermawan rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction

This lassic literature published in 1847, written by Emily Bronte before she died, and finally edited by her sister Charlotte Bronte. As a classic novel in the early 19th century influenced by social class and gender inequality, the language used is full of indirect expressions and therefore to read this book seems boring especially for modern readers in the digital age.

It's about two aristocratic families living on the farm, The Earnshaw with two children, a man and a girl who live in Wuthering ...more

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Oct 10, 2018 Tracy T. rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018

Like most other people, I first read "Wuthering Heights" when I was a teenager and thought it was the best thing ever. Now, reading it 15 years later as an adult, I can honestly say I do not enjoy the book at all; in fact, all the things I liked about it were now giant red flags. I'm actually quite amazed I made it through the book, but I wasn't going to let it beat me. ...more

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