Wuthering Heights

Paperback, 322 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2004 by Signet Classic.

ISBN:
978-0-451-52925-1
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OCLC Number:
52969978

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3 stars (11 reviews)

There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.

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reviewed Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Oxford world's classics)

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2 stars

Until 3/4 of the way through I was highly tempted to dismiss this book with a two word review: "Histrionic nonsense." At about that point, however, I was struck by a resemblance to a superficially altogether different genre of literature - no, not the oft noted influence of the wildly popular only a few decades previously, Gothick novel - but a genre I have never heard mentioned in relation to Emily Bronte: Greek Tragedy.

The overwrought, intense, oppressive insanity of almost all the principal characters, the death of one of them at the half-way point, the feeling that everything is going according to the demented will of some external force out to amuse itself, the violently destructive internal relations of a family, all speak to me of the tone and temper of those plays about people such as Oedipus, Electra and Cassandra. To me this explains the histrionics, cruelty, structure …

Subjects

  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
  • Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
  • Rural families -- Fiction
  • Foundlings -- Fiction
  • Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction