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5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes the One You Love Brings About Your Absolute Destruction
Like most, I read this book in high school literature class. I remember liking this book due to the characters, which most authors try to make them likeable to the reader. This is not the case for this novel. I decided to give it a read again due to being older, thus being able to interpret things on another level from my adolescent self.It was easier to read as an adult though the Yorkshire accent still gets me until I read it aloud in my horrible attempt at a British accent. It is still easier for me to read than southern dialect like Huckleberry Finn. I am glad this novel includes notes to explain some phrases that I would have missed such as pigeon feathers and how it relates to death. I also like that the family tree is included but wished it was located in a better spot since I was referencing it multiple times while reading and had to spend a bit of time to find it even with the table of contents. It would be nice if it was right before the first chapter or the last page of the book to make it easier to look back and reference (which you have to do at times to get an idea the time frame).Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is "love" in its most unhealthy and darkest form. It is as tumultuous and unforgiving, raining destruction onto not only themselves but anyone else close enough to the storm. Emily Bronte made it difficult to feel much sympathy for these characters; however, I felt the most sympathy for Hareton Earnshaw. Almost every character has flaws that outweigh their attributes, but to me that makes them more lifelike. They make mistakes that cannot be made amends and sometimes leads to further consequences. I liked Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw the least and still to this day find them both deplorable people but realize that their circumstances help shape them into what they became. Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw became monsters underneath different circumstances. Heathcliff, a victim of neglect, lack of family, and prejudice of his skin. Catherine Earnshaw, neglected until meeting the Linton's that cultivated her into civility and develop her narcissism and vanity.I honestly forgot some of the cruelty in the novel and thus warn that it is not for someone that is sensitive to physical and psychological violence. I still marvel to this day how this novel got published in its time due to topics Emily Bronte bravely tackled that were at that time never mentioned in "polite" society.It is a novel that earns its title as a literary classic, never to go out of style. Though horse and carriage may no longer be the main mode of transportation in today's society, it still imparts some valuable insights. This book taught me a valuable lesson as a teenager that I still interpret to this day as an adult: Just because you love someone, does not mean you should be with them (if it isn't healthy and destructive).Note: I love the cover of this edition. Yhe artwork is not only from the time period that this novel was written, but it perfectly embodies the tempest storm that brews up from Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff's love
5.0 out of 5 stars Heart rending
I've never been more broken up by a book in my life, I didn't even know books could do this to a person
5.0 out of 5 stars I love the classics
This book is always a good read. One of my favourites. I love the dark atmosphere.
5.0 out of 5 stars Look good
Look good
4.0 out of 5 stars Take your time
Do not skip ahead to the chapters, read everything before and watch a youtube video to understand the foundation. Also review the genelogical table. Also try and not mix up the characters. I read this for AP Lit and I do regret it since it was one of the harder books. Also dont just place it on the table and say you're going to get to it because I did that and lets just say 4 days was not enough time to read it.
5.0 out of 5 stars These characters are the human unconscious, the beautiful and the frightful
This is a dark novel without being too dark.The characters are intense. From the complex, perhaps evil, even sociopathic Heathcliff, whose life mission seems to be to make everyone related to his enemies miserable, to the good-witted servant Nelly Dean who narrates almost the entire story. Nelly Dean, as narrator of the huge flashbacks that make up the bulk of the book, balances the scales for the reader, passing her own good and natural judgments as she talks of Heathcliff, and helps the reader see just how dark and twisted Heathcliff is.The other characters are delightful to watch as well. Hareton Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Cathy Earnshaw, and young Cathy. Also Isabella Linton. These characters seem so real that you would swear you were dropped off in rural country England in the 1800s and are personally witnessing their family disputes as a fly on the wall.This book is about family disputes. And the disputes are so deep and so passionate that this bunch puts the Hatfields and McCoys to shame; makes them look like forgiving folk. Heathcliff is about the most ruthless, vengeance-seeking, monomaniacal, persistently passionate character that I have ever seen. Only Madame Defarge from 'A Tale Of Two Cities' might be able to match him on that scale.And what is lovely about this book is that the characters are not one-sided. Heathcliff, for example, is a determined vengeance-seeker, yes. But he is also sort of a, I don't know, classy guy or something of the kind; sort of refined - and yet "in your face" full of his bad attitude. He's strange that way, and yet familiar and real. Like I said, you feel like you know these characters and that they are real.It is not unusual to feel like you know the characters when you read a good book. A very good author will make you feel that way. What is different and special about this book's characters is not just that they seem real, but that they seem both real and a little bit horrifying.The character Heathcliff is sociopathic it seems, yes. And there are other sociopathic characters in other books which capture our imagination, such as Hannibal in 'The Silence of the Lambs.' But what is different about Heathcliff, what sets him apart from other sociopathic types in other books, is his quieter, less harmful-seeming, familiar nature. As bad as he is, he doesn't seem that bad. As persistent he is in his wickedness, in his determination to make others miserable, he doesn't seem like someone to hate fully or to fear or to see as a monster. He's still terribly human; wonderfully human; relatably human.He's a mystery which we partially understand. He taps into our own shadow aspects within ourselves, and we can sort of relate to his monstrous intentions. He is, after all, as much in love with Cathy as he is in hate with others. And it is this relatability that we have to Heathcliff and to the other troubled characters that has made this book seem to some to be a little disturbing,But, it is the way in which it is disturbing which is evidence of its genius. Emily Bronte has, after all, shown us portraits of the human unconscious, and that can be frightening to look at.Reading Wuthering Heights is truly like being a fly on the wall, watching and listening with an intimate ear, the goings on of various real and even disturbing characters, in two dynamic families.
Edition
Un classique édition Penguin...la meilleure
Super, I love this ! Thank you.
Wonderful classic with good notes !
Best general size, cape texture and page colors for a book I've ever had
Best general size, cape texture and page colors for a book I've ever had
Classic
Great classic novel. Worth reading if you like the old stuff. Good fast delivery as always as well
harika
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Editorial Reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes the One You Love Brings About Your Absolute Destruction
Like most, I read this book in high school literature class. I remember liking this book due to the characters, which most authors try to make them likeable to the reader. This is not the case for this novel. I decided to give it a read again due to being older, thus being able to interpret things on another level from my adolescent self.It was easier to read as an adult though the Yorkshire accent still gets me until I read it aloud in my horrible attempt at a British accent. It is still easier for me to read than southern dialect like Huckleberry Finn. I am glad this novel includes notes to explain some phrases that I would have missed such as pigeon feathers and how it relates to death. I also like that the family tree is included but wished it was located in a better spot since I was referencing it multiple times while reading and had to spend a bit of time to find it even with the table of contents. It would be nice if it was right before the first chapter or the last page of the book to make it easier to look back and reference (which you have to do at times to get an idea the time frame).Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is "love" in its most unhealthy and darkest form. It is as tumultuous and unforgiving, raining destruction onto not only themselves but anyone else close enough to the storm. Emily Bronte made it difficult to feel much sympathy for these characters; however, I felt the most sympathy for Hareton Earnshaw. Almost every character has flaws that outweigh their attributes, but to me that makes them more lifelike. They make mistakes that cannot be made amends and sometimes leads to further consequences. I liked Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw the least and still to this day find them both deplorable people but realize that their circumstances help shape them into what they became. Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw became monsters underneath different circumstances. Heathcliff, a victim of neglect, lack of family, and prejudice of his skin. Catherine Earnshaw, neglected until meeting the Linton's that cultivated her into civility and develop her narcissism and vanity.I honestly forgot some of the cruelty in the novel and thus warn that it is not for someone that is sensitive to physical and psychological violence. I still marvel to this day how this novel got published in its time due to topics Emily Bronte bravely tackled that were at that time never mentioned in "polite" society.It is a novel that earns its title as a literary classic, never to go out of style. Though horse and carriage may no longer be the main mode of transportation in today's society, it still imparts some valuable insights. This book taught me a valuable lesson as a teenager that I still interpret to this day as an adult: Just because you love someone, does not mean you should be with them (if it isn't healthy and destructive).Note: I love the cover of this edition. Yhe artwork is not only from the time period that this novel was written, but it perfectly embodies the tempest storm that brews up from Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff's love
5.0 out of 5 stars Heart rending
I've never been more broken up by a book in my life, I didn't even know books could do this to a person
5.0 out of 5 stars I love the classics
This book is always a good read. One of my favourites. I love the dark atmosphere.
5.0 out of 5 stars Look good
Look good
4.0 out of 5 stars Take your time
Do not skip ahead to the chapters, read everything before and watch a youtube video to understand the foundation. Also review the genelogical table. Also try and not mix up the characters. I read this for AP Lit and I do regret it since it was one of the harder books. Also dont just place it on the table and say you're going to get to it because I did that and lets just say 4 days was not enough time to read it.
5.0 out of 5 stars These characters are the human unconscious, the beautiful and the frightful
This is a dark novel without being too dark.The characters are intense. From the complex, perhaps evil, even sociopathic Heathcliff, whose life mission seems to be to make everyone related to his enemies miserable, to the good-witted servant Nelly Dean who narrates almost the entire story. Nelly Dean, as narrator of the huge flashbacks that make up the bulk of the book, balances the scales for the reader, passing her own good and natural judgments as she talks of Heathcliff, and helps the reader see just how dark and twisted Heathcliff is.The other characters are delightful to watch as well. Hareton Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Cathy Earnshaw, and young Cathy. Also Isabella Linton. These characters seem so real that you would swear you were dropped off in rural country England in the 1800s and are personally witnessing their family disputes as a fly on the wall.This book is about family disputes. And the disputes are so deep and so passionate that this bunch puts the Hatfields and McCoys to shame; makes them look like forgiving folk. Heathcliff is about the most ruthless, vengeance-seeking, monomaniacal, persistently passionate character that I have ever seen. Only Madame Defarge from 'A Tale Of Two Cities' might be able to match him on that scale.And what is lovely about this book is that the characters are not one-sided. Heathcliff, for example, is a determined vengeance-seeker, yes. But he is also sort of a, I don't know, classy guy or something of the kind; sort of refined - and yet "in your face" full of his bad attitude. He's strange that way, and yet familiar and real. Like I said, you feel like you know these characters and that they are real.It is not unusual to feel like you know the characters when you read a good book. A very good author will make you feel that way. What is different and special about this book's characters is not just that they seem real, but that they seem both real and a little bit horrifying.The character Heathcliff is sociopathic it seems, yes. And there are other sociopathic characters in other books which capture our imagination, such as Hannibal in 'The Silence of the Lambs.' But what is different about Heathcliff, what sets him apart from other sociopathic types in other books, is his quieter, less harmful-seeming, familiar nature. As bad as he is, he doesn't seem that bad. As persistent he is in his wickedness, in his determination to make others miserable, he doesn't seem like someone to hate fully or to fear or to see as a monster. He's still terribly human; wonderfully human; relatably human.He's a mystery which we partially understand. He taps into our own shadow aspects within ourselves, and we can sort of relate to his monstrous intentions. He is, after all, as much in love with Cathy as he is in hate with others. And it is this relatability that we have to Heathcliff and to the other troubled characters that has made this book seem to some to be a little disturbing,But, it is the way in which it is disturbing which is evidence of its genius. Emily Bronte has, after all, shown us portraits of the human unconscious, and that can be frightening to look at.Reading Wuthering Heights is truly like being a fly on the wall, watching and listening with an intimate ear, the goings on of various real and even disturbing characters, in two dynamic families.
Edition
Un classique édition Penguin...la meilleure
Super, I love this ! Thank you.
Wonderful classic with good notes !
Best general size, cape texture and page colors for a book I've ever had
Best general size, cape texture and page colors for a book I've ever had
Classic
Great classic novel. Worth reading if you like the old stuff. Good fast delivery as always as well
harika
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