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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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Wuthering Heights edition by Emily Brontë Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Wuthering Heights is by far one of my favorite books. There are very few which I have found myself reading and rereading. Wuthering Heights never seems to disappoint me. It contains all the thrills, chills, and emotions I need in a work of literature. Without going into too much detail, this novel follows the doomed love of the orphan Heathcliff and Catherine. It a tale of love, loss, vengeance and torture. This is the truth of heart wrenching qualities of love. It is definitely for a lover of drama and a lover of love.
In high school I was suppose to read this book. I keep falling asleep as tried to read it. This time I forced myself to read. I didn't get it until the halfway point. Healthcliff was a sinister character and very unlikable. The double Catherine characters where very interesting in that they approached diversity differently.
The book did a good job of describing the total control that English gentry had over people's lives during this period of time
At time the dialect of the characters was hard to follow.
Overall I enjoyed the book.
When I first started listening to this audible version, I was not sure I enjoyed listening to the readers voice ( a bit to "aged"), but I soon became so engrossed with the story being told, That, soon left the equation. Love listening to the classics on audible! Sometimes, a classic book, such as Withering Heights, can be a bit difficult to read through, but hearing it, can transform you right into the thick of it! I would have given this a 5 star, but there was an issue with the download picking up where you last left off. Each time, it would not restart where I left off, but many pages behind. It was quite frustrating having to search for my spot each time.
I finally finished this book after 2 failed previous attempts to read it and I'm happy that I stuck with it this time.
I feel I have to warn people not to make the same mistake that I did and go into this book believing it to be a romance. That might be the 'Hollywood' version of the story, but the book is anything but....
I've never read a story more menacing, evil and lacking in complete sympathy and regard for anything other than the characters own selfish whims and fancies. I was on the fence about it till about 40 percent in, as I really really didn't like even a single person from the whole cast.
Hindley was narrow minded. Cathy I was selfish, bitchy, wild and half crazy. I never truly knew the meaning of the word "diabolical", until I read about Heathcliff! I hope I was shocked at most of his behavior! What a crazy, revenge driven life, ruining everything he touched. Not even was his love for Cathy I made me like him. Mr. Linton was weak as was his sister. Linton Heathcliff was more his father than anything.
Cathy II was the only person I liked in the whole book. Finally a good decent person!
I have to admit though, it does take an accomplished writer to take such horrid characters and make a story which is engaging till the very end. The story being told from a third person memories makes the characters more mysterious. Their motives obscured. It is beautifully written. The ending was a bit off for me. Heathcliff just dropped dead. He only knows from what. There is such a Gothic sense of menace in the whole book. I loved reading it. )
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)