Wuthering Heights: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
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Published a year before her death at the age of thirty, Emily Brontë’s only novel is set in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors. Depicting the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with an instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Pauline Nestor
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Wuthering Heights: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
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While cultural pundits try to convince you that some literature is better than other literature, the truth is that all art is relative to individial tastes. Thus, it doesn’t make any sense to think that a novel like this one is really any better than say, Michael Crichton or Stephen King. Aesthetic standards can’t be grounded.
Thus, don’t listen to anyone who tries to distinguish between “serious” works of literature like this one and allegedly “lesser” novels. The distinction is entirely illusory, because no novels are “better” than any others, and the concept of a “great novel” is an intellectual hoax.
Rating: 1 / 5
Maybe the title is a bit harsh. Sometimes Henry James can beat a Bronte sister in forcing banality onto a book. The title is mostly true though, the Bronte sisters have added nothing to literature than generic cruddy love stories in bland settings with too many words. Between Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I have to say that the latter is the worst of the pair, Jane Eyre taking a close second in the “worst books of all time” competition. My suggestion is to skip out on this book entirely and burn all copies you have of it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was very pleased with the book,”Wurthering Heights” and the service in sending it to me. THank you.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is an absolute mess. It’s told in the first person by different narrators but as I was bored and so unfocused a lot of the time I was sometimes not sure who was narrating. Heathcliffe the ‘hero’ was annoying and in some ways pathetic and the heroine Cathy seemed like a spoiled brat. I didn’t like the use of dialect either- It’s a lot easier to read English as it should be written and imagine an accent to it rather than see these strange alien words in print. What an absolute mess of a book, I can’t believe all the praise I see heaped on it.
Rating: 1 / 5
My daughter had to read this book for English @ school and she’s 15 and said that it was long drawn out and boring because of the depth gone into to descibe everything….
Rating: 3 / 5