Loved itmaybe start Wuthering Heights cuz I've never watched it before. Very excited because it was in theater and like everybody's seeing it, and I want to watch it cuz that's one of my favorite classic books.
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Wuthering Heights (1846)
Others: Mostly positive Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
- ISBN:
- 9798373104548
- Length:
- 312 pages
Genres: romance, historical fiction, young adult, classics
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Loved itThe beauty of Wuthering Heights is that we see Heathcliff as this awful figure, but also this tragic figure that we can at the same time sympathize with. The story has a ton of nuance, like I said, that's why it's so hard to adapt.
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Loved itMrs. Dalloway, I think along with Wuthering Heights, is the book that I have re-read the most.
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Loved itThere are lines in Wuthering Heights that I find beautiful. That's just because Wuthering Heights is a well-written novel.
Loved itA complex book about revenge, selfishness, classism, racism, anger that persists through the decades, that has consequences on the next generation. A book filled with horrible, twisted, toxic behavior all of which is very unsexy, and yes, some romance and yearning as well.
Loved itWthering Heights has some of the most powerful writing I've ever read. I think Emily Bronte is a wonderful writer.
Loved itI'd be voting for Wuthering Heights, so that hasn't been changed in fiction though I've now read three from the category.
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Loved itthis is one of my favorite classic novels of all time, and that is this gorgeous, gorgeous, like burgundy leather edition of Withering Heights.
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Loved itBut personally I love it a lot. It is one of my most read books. I have read it many times.
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Loved itMy favourite book of all time is always going to be Wuthering Heights. I reread it again this year. I did tabs this time for the first time because I was preparing for the literary pilgrimage that I was leading.
Not a fanKathy Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights I just recently finished Wuthering Heights and Kathy was a character that drove me absolutely nuts
Loved itI actually can't believe that Emily Bronte wrote a whole book based on that Kate Bush song. That's mad. And I do think it's gonna go in clothband classic. I like it.
Loved itI was under the impression that this was just a love story, that it was some bit of soppy, you know, romanticized classic. And little did I know that it was just a story about like a lost love and revenge and mostly revenge and pettiness and more revenge and safe to say I loved it.
Not a fanI've never wanted to physically throw a book away from me but I did with this one it was terrible I hated the characters they were all extremely selfish they were all extremely cruel and vindictive and manipulative just horrible people
Loved itI'm also in love with this book withering Heights is such a popular novel and so many people love it but I just go beyond loving it... I cannot rate this novel enough.
Not a fancuz for the record I did not like Weathering Heights.
Not a fanIf I want to categorize Bronte's novels that I read this year, Jane Air followed by Tenant of Video Hall followed by Withering Heights. That [ __ ] was depressing.