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Title: Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte, Pauline Nestor, Lucasta Miller ISBN: 0-14-143955-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Classic.
Comment: Wuthering Heights is truly the definitive "epic" novel. The animated, wild mental scenery, the perplex love/hate relationships, and the extended tale of two generations. Its story is so dramatic and wrenching it almost borders a soap opera, but luckily Emily Bronte's writing skills and character dynamics protect it from ever being comparable. I
The plot revolves around a possessive, yet unconsummated relationship between the two main characters, a gypsy boy named Heathcliff and the daughter of a respected family, Catherine Earnshaw, and branches off into the consequences of a love too wild and profound to be controlled. A love triangle ensues involving a wealthy neighbor who wishes for Catherine's love and her hand in marriage as opposed to Heathcliff's instability. Her choice influences all the events to come and lives are ruined in the midst of the storm created by a passion too deep to renounce. With its dark themes and violent characters it is considered by many to be the original Gothic Romance novel.
Upon its first publishing, the story was considered too harsh and the characters vile, and was rejected by many readers in the early 19th Century. Emily Bronte, having been born and raised amongst the moors and the people bred of it knew no other way of life at the age of seventeen when she wrote this novel.
Ultimately, it is the wild and uncontrollable nature that makes the novel so affecting and believable, capturing your heart and your emotions. It drives you into feeling what the characters experience with it's descriptive writing and you then know what is the essence of the story. The book is a work of art made from minimal environmental resources, with the mind and the soul sculpting it into a true representation of love's ability to conquer hate.
Rating: 4
Summary: Truly Awe-Inspiring
Comment: I must admit I did the unthinkable. I watched the epic 1939 version of "Wuthering Heights" before reading the book. The book portrays Heathcliff as a brash, violent man unlike the movie, where he is brash, but his heart is still carrying a torch for Cathy. I never knew that the two main characters had children, and reading about the deep contempt Heathcliff had for Linton, his son, I was appalled. Nevertheless, I loved reading the book. The tragic love borders many other great novels written for the period, and I would suggest anyone who loves two lovers trying to deny the feelings between one another, read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why In The World Did I Read This?
Comment: I am absolutly stunned. Why do I like this book so much? How did I read it through? I am a 21 year old man living in a modern city and I somehow related to this book. I have nothing in common with the characters or the author or the story or the setting. I had to read this book for college but dropped out before reading it. Several months later I picked it up and gave it a try. I'm not sorry I did. Thinking about it now I start to realize what is so good about the book: it's author's compassion for humanity. All characters in this novel suffer a great deal (partly because of their own stubbornness) but retain their essential humanity: they still need to be loved. And while reading it you can feel the author's longing to be loved herself. So this is what made me read through the book: it speaks directly to your heart in a way you can not ignore.
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Title: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Michael Mason ISBN: 0142437204 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Vivien Jones, Tony Tanner ISBN: 0141439513 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Wuthering Heights (Cliffs Notes) by Richard P. Wasowski ISBN: 0764585940 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 22 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mitchell ISBN: 0141439564 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Currer Bell, Erica Jong ISBN: 0451526554 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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