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I read Wuthering Heights for the first time back in high school. The book captivated me then, and continued to do so throughout the following years. I think I've watched every move adaption there is, and I had wanted to go back and read it again sometime. I'm glad that I did. I loved it just as mu...
Summary: Many people, generally those who have never read the book, consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward, if intense, love story — Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-l...
A few months ago I re-read Wuthering Heights. I had read it before, many years ago, as an impressionable teenager but couldn't remember much about it as most of my impressions from reading the book had been edged out of my memory by Kate Bush's song and Monty Python's most excellent re-telling of th...
I've had to re-evaluate my opinion about this novel. I first read it last year (I think) and found it, well, "meh". I didn't care that much about it either way. It was fine. Now, however, I've had to re-read it for an essay, and I enjoyed it considerably more. To be strictly fair, I think that was m...
GAH! Pretty much disliked this one, manic depression and child abuse rolled into a package that seriously had my teeth on edge. I prefer Daphne du Maurier for the same kind of atmosphere and would much rather lose myself in a Jane Austen for a period piece.