Emily Bronte skillfully creates a tale of thwarted love and undying passion. In the dark, gloomy setting of the moors, two characters fall deeply in love with one another, which serves as the catalyst for the events in the rest of the novel. The first half of the book shows the powerful romance between Catherine and Healthcliff, while the second half involves Catherine's daughter and a boy named Hareton Earnshaw. Although the characters are well-developed, none of them are likeable and are full of faults. What is endearing about them however, is their capacity to love. A reader can even feel sympathy for the cold-hearted and brutal Heathcliff, whose affection for Catherine began from childhood and ended at death. It is an amazing read and a tragic classic that will touch any reader.

This was my third or fourth go round with this remarkable classic, which, for me, rates right up there with Hardy's Jude the Obscure. There is a richness of character development here, a taught arc of plot. Bronte creates such complex characters that you both love and detest, and in the end she forges a tragedy that has earned its right in classic literature. Like Hardy, she runs an undercurrent of environment, almost as a background character, that shapes and influences both protagonists and plot. And while the plot's denouement is predictable, that predictability acts as tension, reinforcing the futility of escaping both the nature of one's environment, and the nature of one's basic character. For me it is a staple of our library, and should be for any true lover of literature.

I started reading Wuthering Heights and could not put it down. It’s a tale of passion and revenge and I found it very unsettling. Most all of the characters have a capacity to resort to violence; even the weakest of them seem pushed to commit or desire to commit violence or self-destruction. It’s very well written and as much as it arouses discomfort, it also has sweet moments. It’s impossible to begin and not finish it but what’s more, it’s impossible to lay it down and forget about it. I’m not sure whose plight is worse: Catherine’s or Heathcliff’s? I will have to come back to it again to figure it out.

Wuthering Heights is a disturbingly dark book about love, obsession and revenge. It is a romantic novel full of twists and turns that nearly requires the reader to keep a running dictionary of characters, especially since names have a tendency to pop up in different places and on different people throughout the novel. I read this novel for a class assignment in Victorian Literature but it is helpful to know that the book employs many themes of the Romantic literary genre as well. Victorian ideas of social class are brought up as well as the fantasies of adolescence. Some of the Romantic ideas found in the novels include the idea of the tragic landscape. The landscape of the novel is foreboding and isolated, borrowed most likely from the gothic novel. The characters are extreme in their varying passions and the concept of the dream is used in a type of ghostly communication. One of the story's narrators has a dream of being visited by the ghost of Catherine, which causes a startling and dramatic reaction in Heathcliff. The belief that the reader cannot fully hate Heathcliff because of how he was mistreated as a child is also a Romantic ideal. The story contains a great deal of darkness and some cruelty, which may turn readers away. Love is often extreme to the point of violence in the novel while the romances themselves are nearly incestuous in tone. Cousins marry and adopted siblings hold lifelong affections and obsessions for each other. The novel also illustrates an element of cruelty that can be slightly disturbing at times. Heathcliff, the novel's antagonist, goes as far as to string up the beloved dog of the young woman he courts after Catherine rejects him. The main focus of the story is the rather twisted love story element that develops between Catherine and Heathcliff. Heathcliff is adopted into Catherine's family at a young age and the pair become close, though Catherine rejects him because he is poor and instead marries a rich neighbor. Though throughout the novel, other romances develop between the two highly inbred families, they are side stories in comparison to the main romance. The love of Catherine and Heathcliff eventually develops into an obsession that lasts, and in fact becomes even stronger with the eventual death of Catherine. Her spirit seems to haunt Heathcliff and further fire his obsession. Even before Catherine's death this obsessive love broadens to include an equally obsessive drive to ruin the lives of all the people who mistreated him and stood between him and Catherine, including her husband and older brother. These obsessions eventually lead to the last of the major themes of the novel, revenge. A good part of the book is spent upon Heathcliff's attempts to destroy the lives of anyone and everyone who mistreated him or got in the way of his relationship with Catherine. His need for revenge does not lessen as the book moves on and Heathcliff continues to take his revenge even upon the next generation, including Catherine's daughter and his own son. Whether or not Heathcliff succeeds in his attempts I leave to the reader. Personally, I enjoyed this book a great deal, if for no other reason than the simple fact that it was quite different from the usual school assigned reading. I was pleasantly surprised by how well woven and engaging the book was. The calculating lengths that Heathcliff goes to in order fulfill his quest for revenge are nearly reason enough to read the book. The old style language of the book, which I expected to be a hindrance, was hardly noticeable. In short, if you can handle (or enjoy) the book's darker aspects, then I highly recommend this classic to you. (And I'm not just saying that because I have to! ;))Enjoy!

This old classic is not for everyone as it can be hard to get into or some people might find it a bit of a dry read. This book made me wonder if I lived in that era and in any of the characters situations, how would I have dealt with it all. I found I wanted to keep reading to understand the characters better and why they did the things they did. Overall though, I'm glad I read it.

It can be difficult to read as the dialect is so old. But, the story takes a hold of you, the characters are so real. The love and loss with Cathy and Heathcliff is powerful and tragic.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is an amazing classic that is very exciting and easy to understand. It is very well written and I am sure every one will enjoy it. This novel is full of so much emotion and was a great experience to read. It is about a boy that is found by Mr. Earnshaw and brought home one day. He is considered a savage, named Heathcliff, who falls madly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor. Misery results from their great longing for each other. They live in the moors, far away from the rest of society. What will happen with their relationship? What are the consequences of their love?

i have to read this book i havent read it yet but i reallly want to it seems like a great book if bella from twilight likes it i bet i will too

There seems to be an underlining meaning to the events in this book. A message is there for you to crack, a warning on the instability of society and human behavior. It is packed with contrast and parallel symbols. Not only that, but there is an unreliable narrator that really shows the reader’s true colours by their reactions to what is being said.

Don't shy away from this product because it doesn't show the cover page. It is part of the Dover Classics Edition and it is unabridged. This is the bibliographical note from the book "This Dover edition, first published in 1996, contains the unabridged text of the first edition of Wuthering Heights: A Novel, published in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, in London".