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Wuthering Heights Kindle Edition

by Emily Brontë (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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March 30, 2011
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ASIN : B004UJAOLM
Publication date : March 30, 2011
Language : English
File size : 536 KB
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Print length : 172 pages
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Octothorpe Reader LeoraK

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2018

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This review contains spoilers.

Wuthering Heights has been called many many things. Most notable "a literary masterpiece" and "a tragic love story".
Literary Masterpiece? maybe (maybe is a relative term)
Tragic Love story? Most definitely not!

Literary Masterpiece:
As the entire world likes to point out, from a literary point of view, Wuthering Heights is full of symbolism.
(I didn’t google these, they are quite clear in the book):
Doubles and opposites (to the point of the characters being so pathetic, you just want to slap them! - this book is very violent... it is making me violent...), the surrounding landscape with personalities, the weather with personalities, dogs (only the strong will survive), locked doors as a form of revenge and is it a coincidence that doors are made of wood and his name is Mr. Lockwood?

Yay!!! A+ for symbolism.

Ok.... but who really reads a book looking for symbolism? We read books to relate to characters, to escape into someone else's world for a short period of time and see something different.

I could only relate to:
The Scarlet Thread runs strong in Brontë’s tale. Children making the same bad, irresponsible, selfish decisions as their parents, not considering the consequences and history repeats itself. Almost to the letter (pun intended).

Tragic Love Story
There is no love in this book - you cannot even call it infatuation or lust. Catherine and Heathcliff are mean-spirited (evil, so evil), self-involved, abusive and narcissistic. Their relationship ... or whatever, is completely toxic. Not even mentioning the fact that Catherine married another man and still wants to entertain the notion that she can spend time with Heathcliff and expect her husband to feel empathy for her. Then, when she needs to deal with the consequences, true to her narcissistic personality disorder, she blames everyone else.

If you want to read this book to write a book report or research it to learn about symbolism, yes; by all means, go for it. If you want to read a love story, this book is NOT FOR YOU!

A Very Important Note to Conclude:
The literary career of the Brontë sisters is interesting and inspirational. Charlotte was the first to attempt to get her poems published. She was rejected several times and told in no uncertain terms that literature was a man’s business and holds no occupation for a woman. Charlotte was not dismayed and kept trying until she found a publisher willing to publish her poems, as well as Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Anne’s Agnes Grey in 1847. And so, began the Brontë sisters’ literary careers.

Favorite Quotes:
“You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also…”

“How did you contrive to preserve the common sympathies of human nature when you resided here? I cannot recognize any sentiment which those around share with me.”

“ ‘She abandoned them under a delusion,’ he answered; ‘picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion.' ” -- like this book.

More Books by the Brontë Sisters:

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre (1847)
Shirley (1849)
Villette (1853)
The Professor (1857)
Emma, unfinished (posthumously 1860)

Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey (1847 pseudonym Acton Bell)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848 pseudonym Acton Bell)

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Travis Bughi

Wuthering Heights, a not-so-short-review

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2019

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So I haven’t done one of these book reviews on my website in a while, but I got a lot to say about this one, Bronte, and perhaps the entire romance genre in general, and this seems like the best place to do it.
To kick off, I’ve had this book on Kindle for some time. I went on this spree where I combed over my to-read list and downloaded all the free books I could find (ie: those in the public domain) and have been slowly working my way through that list ever since. Wuthering Heights was low on my priorities because I’d heard it was a romance, a long romance, a long historical romance, and none of those checked any boxes for me in what I wanted to read until now. But finally I dove in and, well, DAMN!
I don’t even know where to start. I guess I’ll just dive in at my first thoughts. This book is an example of the best trainwreck I could have ever conceived. Terrible characters doing awful things to each other, drowning in a cesspool of drama and contrived tension, thinly justified by an unjustifiable lapse in mental stability caused by, but never directly stated, the ridiculous notion of — Love. Honestly, I should have hated this book.
But I couldn’t freaking put it down, and I have no idea why! Quick summary time:
A man known as Mr. Heathcliff is taken as a boy to a wealthy home with a son and a daughter. He grows up, has a fling with the daughter, a feud with the brother, then disappears for 2 years. The daughter marries someone else, the son loses his wife to childbirth, and Heathcliff comes back into the picture. He gets all pissed off that the daughter didn’t “wait for him” and then proceeds to screw everyone over in the most vindictive ways he can possibly think of without resorting to physical violence, including the offspring of the former parties, all because he couldn’t be with his “one true love.”
Seriously? WTF? There’s about 3 paragraphs of romance in this entire novel, and the rest of the other 30 odd chapters of story is about vindictive and petty revenge being acted upon or by this one dude. By the end of the story, it’s clear Mr. Heathcliff is a miserable jerk who deserved what happened to him, and how any of his actions are justified because he loved someone is thinner than wet paper. Which leads me to believe that…
Wuthering Heights is secretly a satire on the romance genre, too well done for anyone to actually realized it, and Emily Bronte is a genius.
I mean, think about it. All I could imagine when reading this novel was, “Bronte must have tried to write the most despicable character in existence, just too see how much evil people would ignore so long as the villain has a deep love for somebody.” That’s all I can think of! Because Mr. Heathcliff, and most everyone else, is terrible, and I can’t fathom why anyone would feel anything other than disgust at his conduct.
And yet, all that aside, I still can’t figure out why I didn’t throw this novel through a window. Emily Bronte, my hat is off to you. I’m not sure what you did, but damn did you do it well.
5 Stars.

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Gorilichis

I hated it!

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019

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This is what passes as a love story for the ages? No wonder so many people are so miserable in their romantic lives. A psychopath and a manipulative woman love each other to death. Catherine marries a good man who loves her and she destroys everything for a miserable b@stard? I don’t understand how this is a classic, as it would be hard to find a more disagreeable cast of characters. I figured the kids couldn’t be any worse but lo and behold, Cathy is a whiny spoiled princess and Linton a crybaby that I just wanted to slap. Even Nelly, the housekeeper, is hopelessly clueless. If this was not enough to make me hate this book, there is tons of casual animal cruelty. Maybe I’m ignorant and missing the point but all I can say about reading this is, at least I can say I did.

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Marraduse

A masterpiece but not for the usual reasons!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2017

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A brief synopsis of Wuthering Heights would be a house in which everyone who lives there hates everyone else yet mysteriously refuses to leave!
A jolly visitor seeks a room and hopes to befriend the master of the house but finds the atmosphere positively frigid. He spends an unnerving night at the place and finds his curiosity piqued by all he experiences until he determines to get to the bottom of the mystery. This is a challenging book that will defy the reader to enjoy it but not because it's difficult to read or follow but because it's unremittingly dour. I recently re-read it in a book club and the discussion about it revealed to us that while it isn't traditionally satisfying it is undoubtedly a book of enormous depth that rewards analysis. The characters and their motivations are profound and compelling even where they are thoroughly unpleasant. The principles are Cathy and Heathcliff, two beings that clash like the immoveable object and the irresistable force; there seems to be an almost supernatural aspect to their relationship, something beyond their mortal selves that compels them to actions outside of their control, actions which seem doomed to destroy them and everyone around them.

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Mr. Earnshaw

Atmospheric classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2017

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I fully read WH about 10 years ago after giving up on it at school 40 years previously. At that time I found the narrative too confusing and the writing style very old-fashioned. Having now read it for the third time and hopefully not the last, I think it must rank as one of the greatest works of literature ever written.

Most of the other reviews on here have described perfectly the characters, atmosphere and moorland settings. I can only add, that as much as the central storyline is about obsessive and revengeful love, there is also pervasive feeling of death lurking in the shadows.
I must also recommend, if possible, a visit to Howarth and walk from there to Top Withens - thought to be the inspiration for the Heights - to really soak in the windswept ambience.

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Very mixed feelings about this classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2020

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I thought I had read this as a teen and came to pick it up after reading a collection of short stories 'I Am Heathcliff' curated by Kate Mosse. I knew after only a few pages it was not something I had ever encountered before and I must say sadly I am not a fan.

Although I enjoyed some of the wonderful descriptive passages I really was not a fan of any of the characters. The only one I did enjoy was Hareton and even though Heathcliff was harsh with him he was a hard worker and stood by him. It is a very dark twisted story for its time.

Oonagh

I would recommend!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2016

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i really love this book. It's similar to Jane Eyre in writing style and themes, but where Charlotte Bronte keeps things fairly safe and only uses touches of gothic horror to spice up an otherwise fairly optimistic and unchallenging (at least to a modern reader) romance, Emily Bronte goes the whole hog. This book is comparatively so dark and twisted. Sure, it would be incomparable to actual modern horror books. I'm not saying it's scary or anything. I just found it amazingly written and really quite gritty, so the themes of the book - isolation, alienation, class, illness, death, plenty of tragedy, are felt on every page. It's so much more interesting and insightful than other books I have read from the time. Every character is an investigation of a certain cliche in 18th Century British society, with out patronising or over simplifying. Practically every character has depth, and a story to tell.
It uses the simple but always satisfying format of a story told within a story - an outsider to Wtuehring Heights and a new tenant asks the matronly housekeeper, Nelly Dean. The following story is mainly written in the style of her recounting her life as she knits. It's charming to see such a servant be given such power over the narrative, as well as being shown to be so brave, shrewd, and warm, despite being introduced as a clucking old gossip. Her experience spans the coming of age story of two generations; her recounts of tragedy have added personal anguish, as she was involved, and a maternal figure to many of the characters, but removed. She makes up for any missing information on occasion with chilling hearsay.
The characters in the novel are some of the most compelling I've read in a while. Not all of them, I suppose - the female characters apart from Ellen Dean all unfortunately seem fairly similar, but characters like Linton and Hareton are really interesting to read. Linton, especially, was such a conflicted character, and still can't decide whether I hate the poor boy, or pity him. One other comment I have on this book is that I don't really see how Heathcliff seems to have been interpreted universally (by people who haven't read it I suppose, since this was the impression I got before I read this book) as some kind of tragic romantic hero. I suppose you could view him as that, and I definitely empathise with him in parts, but mostly he's just a psychp. It's cool that we get to see why he's like that though, and he's definitely not all to blame, to the extent that I feel maybe he has at least slightly sidestepped being pigeon-holed as evil just for being a 'gypsie'. Sure other characters view im as that, but he is written about with enough understanding and empathy that that is not all he is.

TL;DR (slightly spoilery):

everybody dies, everybody marries their cousins, everybody is super gothic. Like Jane Eyre's emo phase, but good.

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Greg Boyd

Wuthering Heights on Kindle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2013

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For the kindle users among you I'll start by saying that the formatting in this book is perfect. It's easy to navigate and the paragraphs are well spaced. There are one or two typos in the text but nothing that detracts too much from the reading of the book. Considering it's free, I see no reason not to download this excellent book.

Wuthering Heights is a strange book. Being as old as it is, and having been labelled a classic, it's easy to brush it off as a silly and (dare I say it?) girly book about handsome young men and women who marry their cousins. Well, that is actually what happens but the book is so much more than that! Emily Brontë beautifully explores the lengths to which a man, driven mad by love, will go to be reunited with the object of his affection and seek revenge on the people who separated them.

However unhelpful the label may be, Wuthering Heights IS a classic which has inspired many great writers and several great musicians (see Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush, and Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers and In That Quiet Earth by Genesis). It introduced some immortal and unforgettable characters such as the tortured and cruel Heathcliff and poor Catherine. Far from just being a simple love story, Wuthering Heights is a heartbreaking tale that focuses more on death and sorrow. You find yourself hating Heathcliff but also pitying him. In the end, the resolution of the story depends on the readers own interpretation of the various hints at the existence of supernatural forces Emily Brontë makes throughout the novel.

The language is fairly archaic and the "yorkshire" accents, which are written phonetically, are almost illegible in places but this just adds to the atmosphere and helps set the scene until you find yourself lost in the early 19th century. At times, the writing is almost poetic and some passages took my breath away. The very last paragraph being a perfect example:

"I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched
the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells,
listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass,
and wondered how any one could ever imagine
unquiet slumber for the sleepers in that quiet earth"

I'm more often than not found with my nose in a science-fiction or fantasy novel but this book held my attention to the point that I could not put it down.

I would recommend this book to everyone ever

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