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Lucy
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Jan 14, 2018 07:27AM
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Hey there! I wanted to share with you one particular book that I read last year and that has been compared to Wuthering Heights. It is a Spanish novel by Carmen Laforet called Nada. It was published in 1945, and it talks about a young woman who moves to Barcelona to go to the University after the Spanish Civil War. She lives with some relatives there and what really has been compared to Emily Brontë's novel is the oppresive atmosphere and the characteres. I really really liked it, and the experience was quite similar to reading Withering Heights in terms of what my feelings about the characters were and how it was not at all what I expected from it.
I hope you are interested in it! I read it in Spanish (since I am Spanish myself) but I don't think there is any problem finding it in English since it was a popular book and it won one of the most important prizes in Spain for Spanish literature. And also, if you speak Spanish as a foreign language I think it is very accessible!
I find similarities between Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein in terms of the intricate narratives embedded within each other. Also the isolated protagonist.
I am going to follow this channel closely because honestly I cannot think of too many books that are like Wuthering Heights. It seems to me to stand alone.
There are a few books that are sort of rewrites or different tells etc. April Lindner's Catherine is a modernised Wuthering Heights, I'm planning on going back to ti now but I couldn't get into it the first I tried (her Jane which is modern Jane Eyre is amazing though). Alison Case wrote Nelly Dean, wherein Nelly writes a novel length letter to Mr Lockwood, telling him the story she didnt tell him while he was at the grange.
Kate Mosse put together a collection of short stories by a variety of authors for Emily's bicentenary which is called I Am Heathcliff. The majority of the stories in it are great, a couple less so, but overall definitely worth a read.
In terms of other books similar to Wuthering Heights, although it's not gothic, I always find there are a lot of comparisons to be drawn between Wuthering Heights and the Great Gatsby.
