Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) by Emily Bront? Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics)
Book Review: It was not the most exciting book I've ever read.
Summary: 2 Stars
Even though Emily and Charlotte are sisters, it obvious who the better writer of the two is, Charlotte. I chose this novel for my 12th grade students to read and I decided that I would never again read it. It takes too long for everyone to realize Heathcliff is a jerk. I think that if anyone is interested in reading the Brontes to read Charlotte. If anyone is interested in reading literature from that era, read Jane Austen.Book Review: A Beautiful Story of Love that Never Ends
Summary: 5 Stars
Wuthering Heights is my favorite book. The love Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw had was a love nobody else could undersatand but them. It defied all odds and boundaries. They were truly meant for each other and even death couldn't part them. There love is one that will go down in history as one of the truest loves in the world.Book Review: Never again!
Summary: 1 Stars
I began reading--"though you mayn't believe it," to quote Lewis Carroll's Mock Turtle--at the age of 1 and 9 months. Since then I have read literally thousands of books. And of them all, "Wuthering Heights" is my least favorite. The characters are so unpleasant and cruel to each other that reading the book is a seemingly endless nightmare. It seems that almost everyone in the story eventually dies some physically or psychologically horrible death, and the two major characters other than the two first-person narrators get engaged to each other at the end in an attempt to give the book a bizarre happy ending. About the only good thing about the book is its intriguing narrative structure, in which a man sets down in his diary a long first-person narrative told him by a woman who sometimes repeats briefer stories told her in the first person by others, such as Catharine. Even this, though, is rendered irritating by the fact that the diarist is such an boring and annoying character. I would never have continued reading this book beyond the first few chapters had it not been a school assignment, and I felt a greater sense of relief when I finished it than on any other occasion in my life. To quote what C. S. Lewis once wrote on the last page of a book he had read (I forget which one), "Never again."Book Review: An excellent book, but very complicated.
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed the book immensly, but felt that it was rather complicated. Too many characters with the same name. Too much writing in dialect. Overall, enjoyable.Book Review: Get through Chapter 8
Summary: 3 Stars
The novel as a whole is not the best I have ever read; however, I did enjoy it somewhat. The symbolism and witt of the author more than make up for the slow beginning. Try it out and even though it starts slow; in the end it is a great story. Also, pay close attention to the generations. Just because the names maybe the same, the people certainly are not the same.