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Books : Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by: Emily Bronte Childrens Toy Shop Price: £2.00 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780140620122 ISBN: 0140620125 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 25, 2007 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 1217 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - StunningI've just read this book for the third time, and it's certainly one of those rare finds that gets better and better with every read. Dark, brooding and passionate, Emily Bronte shows great talent as writer and demonstrates a great understanding and a great flair for the Gothic genre. Despite the unlikeable characters, the reader is sucked into their all-encompassing world of gloom, love, madness, despair and revenge. Heathcliff is certainly the greatest anti-hero created. I only wish EB's last manuscript had not been destroyed, unpublished, after her death - know knows what master-piece she would have created? Rating:  - Misleading Advertising by Penguin!I thought it was time to expand my reading horizons with some classic literature without blowing my budget, so this Penguin Popular Classic at £2 seemed the ideal choice, particularly as, when I used the 'Search Inside' facility, it showed in the list of contents a preface, chronology, introduction and further reading. When I received the book, these 42 pages were missing, and on closer inspection I see the 'Search Inside' facility shows a completely different, more expensive Penguin edition. This seems highly misleading to me - it's disappointing that a publisher with the status of Penguin would mislead customers like this. 5 stars for the story, reduced to 3 for cheating!! Rating: - The height of great literatureI've lost count of the number of times I've read this; but every time something else jumps out at me. There is something so different and hard to pin down - indefinable - about what exactly it is that makes this book so unique. Heathcliffe and the first Catherine are almost demented in their wild passions - almost as if Emily Bronte were taking the idea of romance and passion to in insane extreme - and one of the strongest themes in the book is whether the lovers meet again after death. It seems incredible that at the two houses no one seems to shop, either for clothes or food - there is little interest in normal human bodily life or functions. A Bronte scholar, Thomas Moser, believed that Emile Bronte wrote the final famous ... Read More: Rating: - A heartbreaking love story!One of the great love stories and a brilliantly written book. It deserves it reputation as there has never been a love story quite like the one between Cathy and Heathcliffe. Rating: - Dont make prejudgementsThis is a fantastic novel. I am trying to read some "classics" at the moment instead of my usual diet of Stephen King etc and this is the first one I have read that I have enjoyed from start to finish. I think everyone will take different conclusions from this book, some will side with Heathcliff and Catherine, and some will feel sympathy for the wreckage they leave behind in their determination to be together. The setting and the relationships between characters and the wild surroundings of the moor are also richly portrayed. Highly recommended and no boring tale of Victorian morals at all. |
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