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Summary: Great family story
Review: This book is really fascinating. It's not very exciting, but not boring at all. It takes you to another world( well, at least for me because I'm living in a dull german village with not even a movie theater)and another time, where life wasn't so simple. I'm 13 years old and I've read this book in my spare time. I've read it in German but I'm going to read it in English too. One of my faves, everybody who's interested in a little bit confusing family stories should read it.
BYE, Flowerpowertati
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Summary: The next Oprah
Review: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte should be on the next Oprah. There is so much love and deception in this book it would make a great topic. This is the second time I have read this book the first time was in high school and I hated the book. It was partly to do with all the Cathy's. Once you get passed who is who in the book and you understand the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff you begin to understand the book better. I found that is easier to map out the families so I knew who was who and what family they belonged to. This is truly a great novel of love and deception and is now off my bad list and on my good list.
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Summary: Wuthering Heights- A Sad Tale
Review: It is a shame Emily Bronte died so young. Her novel is fantastic. The characters may be hard to accept for someone who lives in middle america suburbia and thinks no evil exists. This book deals with love, jealousy, revenge, hatred, dueling neighbors, and more. This novel is a must read for a lover of the classics. ... I am not going to recap the story as many as done, I would just like to say if you love a torn romance novel, this one is a must.
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Summary: Wuthering Heights is a classic for a reason
Review: A frame story that reveals the lives of a small cast of characters living on the English moors. Catherine Earnshaw is the wildly passionate offspring of the master of Wuthering Heights and his wife. Her father brings home a gypsy looking boy from a trip to Liverpool and this little "silent heathen" is integrated into the family. Catherine and Heathcliff, as the gypsy comes to be named, become inseperable and untamable. However there is another family in this picture who lives in the much friendlier and luxurious house of Thrushcross Grange. Catherine is wounded while sneaking about the Grange with Heathcliff and his welcomed into Thrushcross Grange to be cared for until she heals. Edgar Linton who is Catherines age and will inherit the Grange upon his parents death takes to Cathy and she to him. But Edgar does not feed Catherine's wild nature and is for all intensive purposes a milksop. Catherine returns to the Heights far more mannered and tamed than when she left and Heathcliff is furious that she no longer cares to share in his savageness. Some time passes and Edgar asks Cathy to marry him, she cries to the lady keeper of the house that she wants to marry Heathcliff but she will lose all of her status as upper class if she does. Heathcliff overhears and in a rage of pain leaves and we do not see him again for three years. When he returns Catherine is married and living at the Grange. Heathcliff has become wealthy but is still the cruel savage from his youth and is bent on revenging himself upon all those who wronged him when he was the title-less gypsy boy. (I'm leaving out some important bits and pieces but for the most part the storyline is intact) The ending is a secret known only by those who choose to take the journey across the moors to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange to hear Ellen tell the story. I will tell this: Both Catherine and Heathcliff beget children and death figures big in the plot. This novel contains unbridled passion, heinous revenges, festering anger, unfathomable pain, and the intensity of a storm on the moors. Read the whole book before passing ANY judgement. Bravo Bronte.
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Summary: all that is good and bad about humankind
Review: Wuthering Heights is told from the viewpoint of Ellen, the household servant for a family that lives on the desolate and isolated moors of 19th century Scotland. The book spans several years and two generations. In the first part of the book, young Catherine and her brother Hindley get a new adoptee into the famiyl, Heathcliff. They grow up together. Heathcliff and Catherine are best friends and then decide they love each other when they are adults. But Cathy marries Edgar -- their one neighbor -- because she feels she should even though she is sure she loves Heathcliff. They have a child (also named Cathy), Hindley has a child and Heathcliff has a child and everything keeps on playing out with the next generation.Some issues with the book: I suppose if you are one of the only gals in the neighborhood (i.e. the isolated moors), every guy would be after you. But Catherine is spoiled and hard to care about as a result. Heathcliff isn't "passionate", he is a becrazed stalker with too many social issues. And I always felt sorry that Ellen didn't have her own life, could only comment about the life of bratty Catherine, who isn't even all that interesting anyway.
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Summary: Despicable, yet memorable characters
Review: The fact that this novel was written when Emily Bronte was only 28 years old, two years before her death, makes one wonder what she would have been capable of had she lived longer and continued writing. I must admit, this was one of those books that I appreciate for its literary merit more than enjoy for its pure reading pleasure. But if the true test of a novel is how visceral of a reaction the reader has to its characters, then this is certainly a fine novel. Each of Bronte's characters is exquisitely developed in his or her own way. And each evokes powerful emotional responses from the reader - mostly negative reactions of anger, frustration, disgust, etc. - but reactions, nonetheless. A well-written character, remember, does not have to be a character that you admire or love; pathetic, self-centered, cruel characters can be the product of exceptional writing, as long as they evoke genuine feelings of revulsion from the reader. And this novel is full of characters that will earn little admiration from readers. Indeed, the only character that was really "likeable" was the temporary tenant of the Wuthering Heights estate, to whom the story is recounted by Ellen, the servant. Ellen gives her account of the events that she witnessed as the domestic employee of Catherine, a self-centered, melodramatic eccentric who falls in love with Heathcliff, the gypsy who under somewhat mysterious circumstances is brought by her father to live in their home. Despite her love, Catherine marries Edgar, causing Heathcliff to devote the remainder of his years to exacting revenge for her betrayal. What follows is a dark, brutal, sometimes frightening tale of a pathological love affair and its tragic consequences. Bronte certainly did not view the world through rose-colored glasses, if Wuthering Heights is any indication of her personal world view. It can be a difficult read at times, only because the few redeemable qualities of the main characters are so powerfully overshadowed by their flaws, their cruel intentions, and the bleak outlook that Bronte portrays. It certainly deserves its place, however, among the classics of English literature, and its characters, despite their shortcomings (or perhaps because of them), will live long in the readers mind after the final page.
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Summary: Elegant style
Review: I found the story a little repetitious, but the style is superb.
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Summary: Great gothic romance novel
Review: Catherine Earnshaw is a willful and romantic girl brought up to be a lady. But despite her breeding she is drawn to Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy orphan whom her father brings home from the streets of London to life with them. After her father's death, Cathy and Heathcliff rebel against her brother Hindley and his stringent regime at Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff has been reduced to being a servant. Although they have a special relationship, Cathy betrays Heathcliff and marries Edward Linton, driving Heathcliff away to plot his revenge. A year later Heathcliff returns having mysteriously acquired the manner, education and money of a gentleman. Heathcliff stays at Wuthering Heights, to the discomfort of Edgar, and ends up becoming master of the place by paying off Hindley's gambling debts. Heathcliff elopes with Edgar's sister, Isabella, thereby getting revenge for Linton's marriage to Cathy. Isabella goes to regret the marriage because of the horrible way Heathcliff treats her. When Catherine becomes pregnant, the delivery proves to be too much for her. In a dramatic final meeting, Catherine and Heathcliff forgive each other their mutual betrayals, but she dies after giving birth to a daughter. Named Catherine after her mother, the young girl is fated to be involved with Linton, the son born by Isabella after leaving Heathcliff and fleeing to London. Soon Heathcliff has designs on a romance between the two cousins that will continue the horrible curse that seems to have descended upon Wuthering Heights. WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a classic gothic romance with a brooding Byronic hero and a love that is stronger than death. This is the only novel Emily Bronte ever published, and perhaps the only one she ever wrote, which is a shame because it evinces a complex structure that is well ahead of its time. Bronte confronts her readers with a choice between the passions of Wuthering Heights and the more civilized life of the Grange. Cathy and Heathcliff are certainly two of the most famous star-crossed lovers in literary history, but their story does not end with their deaths. Readers of gothic romances will want to make sure they read this classic novel.
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Summary: Tragic, not meant to be, love story
Review: This novel brought me to tears...It proves that love for some people, is never meant to be. Heartbreaking and tragic, this story brings true the "If I can't love you, I'll hate you" mentality. A very good read!!!!
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Summary: Perhaps I should stop reading book reviews
Review: Why? Because it sickens me to death.
Can't stand false reviews. I'll just say one thing- if you ever wanted to have a perfect black pearl, flawless and completely spherical, with beautiful glow and precious value, read this book. The pearl's there for you, waiting for someone to take it out and absorb it forever. It might be a hard reading, but it will move you deeply and make you pound your chest and cry out.
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