When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman, he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactor’s daughter, Cathy. But over the years, their childhood friendship morphs into a desperate, twisted, possessive love, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy’s brother and the confines of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and tortured heartbreak reverberating through the generations, wrought with all the brutality, power, and wildness of the Yorkshire moors.With striking force, Emily Brontë’s mesmerizing prose claws at the nature of human folly, defying the gender, religious, and social mores of its day. Wuthering Heights is a transcendent, mystifying masterpiece that examines the cruelty of love, and the ways in which the past, scratching at a windowpane with ghostly fingers, never lets us go.
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Wuthering Hights
By Emily Bronte
When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman, he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactor’s daughter, Cathy. But over the years, their childhood friendship morphs into a desperate, twisted, possessive love, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy’s brother and the confines of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and tortured heartbreak reverberating through the generations, wrought with all the brutality, power, and wildness of the Yorkshire moors.With striking force, Emily Brontë’s mesmerizing prose claws at the nature of human folly, defying the gender, religious, and social mores of its day. Wuthering Heights is a transcendent, mystifying masterpiece that examines the cruelty of love, and the ways in which the past, scratching at a windowpane with ghostly fingers, never lets us go.
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Reviewed by Sarah Am Anfang habe ich mich etwas schwergetan, weil alle Figuren einfach furchtbar sind. Auf das Buch bin ich wegen des kommenden Films gestoßen, der als die romantischste Liebesgeschichte aller Zeiten angekündigt wird. Haben die das Buch wirklich gelesen?? Romantisch ist es ganz und gar nicht. Die Geschichte ist düster, und es passieren schlimme Dinge. Den Schreibstil mochte ich sehr, die Verschachtelung der Handlung und den unzuverlässigen Erzähler. Spätestens nach der Hälfte war ich dann richtig hooked. Ich würde das Buch definitiv weiterempfehlen – aber ganz sicher nicht als romantische Liebesgeschichte.