Author: Emily Bronte (English, 1818-1848)
Originally published: 1847
Page count: 317
Dates read: 7/19/19-7/27/19
2019 book goal progress: 17 out of 41
Back to the Classics category: Classic Tragedy
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Description on back of book:
Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of the metaphysical passion in which heaven and hell, nature and society, and dynamic and passive for forces are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature.
First sentence:
"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with."
CAWPILE Rating: Overall - 3.9 - ⭐⭐
Characters - 0
Atmosphere - 1
Writing Style - 9
Plot - 4
Intrigue - 7
Logic - 4
Enjoyment - 2
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Review:
This is a horrible book where every character is driven by anger, hatred, manipulation, abuse, and revenge. Everyone, even those who seemed they would rise above, is eventually brought low. This book is about the intermarriage of two families: the Earnshaws (Wuthering Heights) and the Lintons (Thrushcross Grange)... and Heathcliff, who the Earnshaws adopted. There are 13 family members listed in the book and, by the end, only two of them are still alive. The last 30 pages or so turns the book on its head and it actually ends positively.
Now I'm off to read another book... but since a review should be more about the author of the book than about the writer of the blog, I will let Emily Bronte have the last words:
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies."
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies."
Sorry you hated this one so much.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say I hated it, thought it definitely wasn't pleasurable. It did keep me interested enough to read it to the end.
DeleteI DID NOT like this one, either. But I never did figure out if it caused me to have a bad attitude while reading it, or if I read it during a time when I was already having a bad attitude about everything, and reading it didn't help. So I'll never know. It just did not end well for me. So much so, that I don't even remember that great quote you added. :D
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