Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

You know when you read a book and it exceeds all expectations to such a degree that as soon as you have finished reading it you go straight back to the beginning and start again? A book which becomes so much a part of your consciousness that you quote from and and refer to it in every day circumstances. A book you can read time and time again without ever getting bored. In short it's your desert island book. 'Wuthering Heights' is one such book for me. So what makes it so wonderful? In order to answer that question, a little information about the author and her time might be helpful. Emily Bronte was born in 1818, one of six children, and grew up ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I was a little girl I have loved all kinds of literature. By the age of 12 I'd read many classics and loved them, although I confess, my understanding of most of the themes was limited. I discovered Wuthering Heights around this time and it gripped me in a way very few books ever have since, so much so that I have reread it time and time again, all through my teens and in to my mid-twenties. The novel takes place on the desolate Yorkshire moors and is concerned with the trials and tribulations of two households and the way they become hopelessly bound together, an association that is blighted by pain and manipulation from the start. The ...  Read the complete review

Wuthering Heights is a tragic love story, and has even been labelled “Emily Bronte’s great story of hate.” And in a way, that’s true. Almost every character hates each other, and rarely loves, I mean real love, and affection is shown. Emily was brought up in the moors, and this is the setting for this novel. She was brought up with her two sisters - Charlotte (The Professor, Jane Eyre) and Anne – (The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey) and her brother Branwell. Her two other sisters had died young, and her Mother a year after Anne’s birth. Her Father immediately chose Branwell as the star of the family, and gave him ...  Read the complete review

Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" appears to be a book that readers will either love or hate, depending largely on whether or not they find the central characters sympathetic and believeable. It is a strange tale, full of reperssed passion and feelings that are never fully expressed. Dominated by images of gloomy, windswept moors and falling rain, this is, depending on your perspective, a bok about two unpleasant people who get what they deserve, or a portrayal of a tragic passion that touches the heart. The story is framed in a curious manner - a traveler stops at a gloomy house, where he learns the tale of those who had been there before him. The tale ...  Read the complete review

My favourite book of all time...Wuthering Heights is the classic of classics and could be read a thousand times over. In fact you have to read it at least 5times to even begin to understand and appreciate its true depth as a whole and with individual parts. Literally each line could be taken and analysed to mean something significant to the novel and praise be to the wonderful Emily Bronte for her clever thinking and symbolic events written about in the novel which make it such a complex, deep and and awe inspiring story. The heroine, Catherine Earnshaw is a lovable yet wild girl, unconventional for the times and quite a turning point for women in literature it can be ...  Read the complete review