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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

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Sep 11, 2014 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics

I'll probably revise this later but for now, I will just say that the back cover of my edition of this book calls it "The Strangest Love Story Ever Told" and I have to concur. It is weird, creepy and frankly, not really a love story. It is more of a ghost story, or a tale of revenge and how it can destroy a person's soul. Be prepared to find every single character unlikeable and/ or sad and pathetic. In the early 19th-century words such as alcoholism, child abuse, co-dependence or post traumatic ...more

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Apr 25, 2019 Brenda rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This started off good for me, and I thought I was going to really like it. But it just went more and more downhill as it went along. I hated every character, and didn't find it an enjoyable book to read. My copy of the book said "love never dies" on the front cover, which I found laughable, because I hardly felt affection from anyone towards anyone else, let alone love. I don't understand why this has been shelved so many times as a romance.

And I really hated every time Joseph spoke in the book. ...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Amy Ellis rated it really liked it

It took me a while to get into this book after not having read it for years and years. I really liked it--Heathcliff totally creeps me out and the original Catherin is ridiculous, but I love the Catherine/Hareton ending.

Updated review 10/19: This book always sucks me in: I only liked Nelly Dean this time and liked how she is really the only one that Heathcliff has a soft spot for. Heathcliff is always much more brutal in the book than I remember. Catherine is the worst, as usual, and Linton is a ...more

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Dec 23, 2019 Laurel Bradshaw rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audible-purchased, england, classics, audiobook, yorkshire, 1800s, color-rating-gold

Something about this story just sucks you right in! I've always supposed I must have read it, or like my prejudice against Jane Austen (before I actually read anything by her) I supposed it was a dreary romance and I wouldn't like it. Well, I loved it. Melodramatic? Yes. Over the top? Yes. But so evocative of the Yorkshire landscape, and of the time in which this is set. I wouldn't call it a romance at all. At least the way we use that term today, it implies a happily ever after ending. Nope, no Something about this story just sucks you right in! I've always supposed I must have read it, or like my prejudice against Jane Austen (before I actually read anything by her) I supposed it was a dreary romance and I wouldn't like it. Well, I loved it. Melodramatic? Yes. Over the top? Yes. But so evocative of the Yorkshire landscape, and of the time in which this is set. I wouldn't call it a romance at all. At least the way we use that term today, it implies a happily ever after ending. Nope, not here. Macbeth and Moby Dick have nothing on Heathcliff. We have ghosts. We have madness. We have revenge. Lots of wind and snow. People dying right and left. (Well, my Yorkshire relatives left Yorkshire for America about this time, because all the women in the family were dying of tuberculosis.... What must life have been like for them?) Then there is Nelly Dean, a truly unreliable narrator. I will definitely be reading this again.

Ms. Froggatt was marvelous, and of course she knows the Yorkshire dialect. Will have to try some others, and seek out the movie versions...

Description: Winner of Audible UK's 2017 Narrator of the Year Award
In an Audible Exclusive production, Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggatt gives a powerhouse performance of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only published novel. This edition features an exclusive introduction written by Ann Dinsdale, Chief Curator of the Brontë Museum.

About the book:
The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge. Believing he has been spurned by Cathy Earnshaw, the only woman he has ever loved, Heathcliff abandons the wild moors of Wuthering Heights, fervently wishing to reestablish himself as the wealthy gentleman he believes Cathy seeks. Having been successful in his ventures, he later returns to the adoptive family who raised him and hungrily seeks to punish those who once rejected him. ...more

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Apr 25, 2019 Genevieve rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-reading-challenge

I don’t understand why I’d like to reread this book. Nothing particularly exciting happens. It’s about relationships between some very sick individuals and families. It’s about revenge. The writing is great. Enough detail and dialogue make it interesting and engaging.

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