Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780192825162 (019282516X)
Publish date: June 27th 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Edition language: English
Not for reading straight through.Poses some interesting questions, though I found funny the number of times he noted that we really can't know what the author intended.I think I need to take a break from John Sutherland for a bit. These puzzles get rather repetitive after a bit.
Sutherland ponders some of the questions that great literature raises. And yes, he does address the title questions, and I find it hard to disagree with him. Really, why is Heathcliff so bloody attractive? He strangles a dog to death! That's the type of man you want to marry?Yeah, yeah, I know; ...
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