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Sassm: This is an offbeat recommendation, but I believe it's a good one. The White Earth is another well written book in which the landscape is closely entwined in a rather gothic tale of human interaction.
Eustrabirbeonne: Lord David Cecil's classification for the characters in "Wuthering Heights" - children of calm and children of storm - may be applied to Herbjorg Wassmo's book, and especially the eponymous heroine. What a child of storm we find in the tall, dark, savage, sensual, ruthless figure of Dina!… (more)
A much darker read than I expected that is filled with some of the most emotionally violent & petulant characters possible, creating one of literature's most complex and psychologically brutal villains in Heathcliff ( )
I now understand why this book is not only a classic but why Heathcliff is a much mentioned character in literature.
Emily Brontë wrote an emotional story that while at time hard to read in today’s world, was heartbreaking. You could feel the torment of Heathcliff as the story goes and the sadness of his end. ( )
Wuthering Heights is classic literature's crowning achievement about spiteful people doing spiteful things to each other, unrestrained vengefulness forever untamed from front to back. There isn't a friendly character in the funereal cast and there's nothing to love about anybody or anything, and it's absolutely brilliant. Brontë teases you with a flossy romance dipped in mud and mire and then turns it on its head and and plunges you down in the marshland until she drowns you in it. Heathcliff is a harrowing villain with whom the reader develops a love-hate relationship, much like Catherine Earnshaw's own emotional volatility, but can you really blame him for who he becomes? A novel full of gothic tragedy and morbid mystery, this is a tight and solid read which safeguards its standing amongst my most beloved novels. ( )
1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
Quotations
...he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
...my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff- he's always, always in my mind- not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being -...
...for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!
Last words
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
A fiend of a book — an incredible monster... The action is laid in hell, — only it seems places and people have English names there. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Haiku summary
This is romantic? Depersonalisation So many corpses. (captainfez)
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Defense of Heathcliff
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