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Summary: A breathtaking and romantic favorite.
Review: Wuthering Heights can easily be compared to a soap opera. Personally, I do not have an inclination towards soap operas, but this novel, written by Emily Bronte, was done beautifully. One of the most complex characters in literature is perhaps Heathcliff. His motives are sometimes opaque but his emotions are so real. The reader can identify with his heartbreak and anguish. The despair created by the love triangles throughout this novel is breathtaking. There is symbolism on every page, making Wuthering Heights an in-depth work of literature. This novel is truly a romantic classic, and personally, my favorite.
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Summary: The epitome of love
Review: This is the most devastating, romantic book ever written. Emily Bronte is a magician, and her magic entraps you through this book. Catherine sums up the meaning of love when she explains to Nelly her love for Heathcliff: "My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and HE remained, I should still continue to be...Nelly, I AM Heathcliff!"
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Summary: A NOVEL WITHOUT EQUAL
Review: This is the best book that I have ever read (and being an English lit graduate, you can believe I've read a lot!). People who hate this book do so because they want a pretty love story with adorable characters. But this isn't a Johanna Lindsey. Heathcliff and Catherine define the terrifying realms of love and hate. They are like rough, hard rocks that epitomize the Earnshaw estate. Neither Heathcliff nor Catherine are heroes--rather they are the villians who want to love each other, but are thwarted by circumstance. This book is too deep and rich to enjoy if you're merely in the mood for a "good read." Rather, you could devote your life to it...
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Summary: It was nicely written, held your attention, a mix of aspects
Review: I loved this book and I could read it over and over
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Summary: This book shows different ways the text can be viewed.
Review: The Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series has done excellent work in showing different ways of looking at the Wuthering Heights text. I liked how the criticisms were collected after the text with the critical positions clearly explained first.
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Summary: Bad weather & cruel lovers have never looked so attractive
Review: Don't believe the reviews posted by semi-literate highschool children. Yes, the book can be difficult to get into, and the narrative structure demands a reader's full attention -- skim a few pages, and you're likely to get lost in confusion . But the initial effort is well worth it. This is the mama of all soap operas, and more. Catherine is the embodiment of every woman's wild side and Heathcliff is the gypsy devil that lurks in every man. These characters are us, before we evolved and became civilized... at least on the outside.Let me set the scene for you: Out in the wild English countryside in the late 1700's, two families of what was then called "the landed gentry" live a few miles from eachother. Up on the windswept bluffs is the crumbling house called Wuthering Heights; down in the sheltered valley is the well-kept Thrushcross Grange. The residents of the Heights are as tempestuous as their surroundings: Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw live there with their two children, bad-tempered Hindley and wild young Catherine. Raised alongside the Earnshaw children is the interloper, Heathcliff, an orphan Gypsy boy that Mr. Earnshaw adopts out of kindness and quickly comes to favor above his own kids. Heathcliff and Catherine are the best of friends and run wild together on the moors, but Hindley is consumed by jealousy and hatred of the other boy, and when his parents die Hindley uses his new authority to turn Heathcliff into a lowly servant-boy. Heathcliff's obsessive devotion to Catherine is matched only by his seething hatred of her brother, on whom he vows vengeance. Meanwhile, down at the Grange, life is much more sedate. There, the prim and spoiled (but very handsome) children of Mr. and Mrs. Linton live in luxury amid feather pillows and toy poodles and such. Eventually, as you might expect, young fair-haired Edgar Linton becomes smitten with his spirited neighbor Catherine. She falls for his curly locks and good manners, but is still held by her fierce attachment to the glowering, dark Heathcliff -- who, she realizes, has a heart as passionate and unforgiving as her own. A savage storm, a disappearance, and a marriage ensue. Everything is settled, and old heartaches and jealousies are clearly a thing of the past. But one night, an unexpected caller comes to see Mistress Catherine -- and suddenly the past is resurrected, and destiny is set in motion...
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Summary: Different, but not exactly bad...
Review: I confess that most of this book was completely over my head. There is a lot of passion in it, but it was a little to deep for me. I guess I'm more of the Jane Austen type. I'd recommend it to anyone who is intrigued by hate and dark passions.
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Summary: Glad Bronte died before she could write any more trash!
Review: What a waste of time, precious time in my life that I will never be able to get back. The only good part was the end when I tossed the book into the fireplace and watched it burn.
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Summary: A compelling classic
Review: Wuthering Heights is a classic only in the sense that it was written in the 19th century. But it is a compelling story w/ dark, violent passions, and emotions of love and hate. Heathcliff's only goal in life is to seek revenge on anyone associated w/ the Earnshaws and Lintons. His love for Catherine is evident, but his hate is chillingly cruel and violent that touches everyone between the two estates. Only when he is w/ Catherine is he pacified. Catherine is torn between her true love Heathcliff, and her duties to marry someone of her station in life. But she doesn't understand her love and emotions for Heathcliff. (Which makes me believe she's too childish, spoiled, and bratty to handle her emotions rationally or she's a manic depressive). It's a dark passionate story that is compelling to read. Unfortunately it's also hard to follow in the third person narrators. The long winded descriptions makes the book drag (which explains the 300 pages). And what in heaven's name is Joseph saying? Are most uneducated people of countryside England so hard to understand? This book isn't for the light reader. If you want something easier and more light hearted, go for Charlotte Brönte's "Jane Eyre." Or books by Jane Austen.
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Summary: Boring
Review: I read this book because my friend said it was good. I wish I'd never read it. I wanted an intelligent book that was interesting and I could enjoy. Wuthering Heights is, simply put, a bad book. Thank god for Isaac Asimov!
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