Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emily's sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.
Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.
The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.
As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.
It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again
Harry potter's Thought after reading.
The boy of large glasses wide near a couple arrives by the hair and the shapely nose of one tea brown. He had you being able to enter the world of very mysterious magic by quietly taking you with the stick of one very mysterious magic in the hand, and the always entire pleasant surprise for his superhuman power. He can fly by sweeping, and getting on it in the air of the resignation bringing one very mysterious thing. Who is he?He is a very mysterious, small magic master. --It is Harry Potter. 《 Harry Potter 》 Things of the phantom became true in this book. ..satan... there is a conjure man, is Monstarz, and there is a spirits of the deadThey are representing good and evil respectively. It is this good-natured boy, it is Harry Potter, and it is a leading part of this Storri. Book..straighten..see..come..author..this..small..magic..master..very..mysterious..career..clue..do..as a result..child..child..express..student..teacher..sincere..feelings..provide..child..difficult time..facing..hold fast to..shrink..wit..fight..brutal..limited..power..with..obstacle..run away.Harry Potter is described, there is still his friend, and a little at the school of this mystery magic. the most special provinces of this bookAll..so much..very..mysterious..this..mystery..nation..conjure man..full..become..always..few..provide..owl..mail..official document..delivery..person..become..believe..mouth..open..read aloud..besom..traffic..a lot of..heavens..bird..same.It is made to walk very ....can idea (It is) ..food.... ..of the West.. master.. ..it.., and it observes orders, 1F is ordered, it moves voluntarily, and it enters the place. It is possible ..person of the portrait.. to turn ..can the blink (It is) ..food.., and there is time without fixing ..with a smile (It is) ..food.... can.. ..a little talk mutually again.. (It is) ..food... ..certain.. all, all are so much very mysterious. Harry Potter can naturally become a small magic master who dominates all parts of the world. I feel admiration for the author of this book really a little, and am a by contraries luxuriant imagination so much. It is brave that its and Harry Potter and his friend faces a brutal power that as for my most much admiration in five of these books. For a long time..all..like this..belief..provide..usual..nation..dangerous..always..all..exist..believe..bright..print..brave..difficult..facing..extreme..arrive..satan..tricky..fear..anything..provide..on condition that..fall into..life..awkward position..harm..reach..provide..food..appropriate..use..school..study..thing..arrive..magic..surely..win.This is ..".. belief very hardened. Because it is firmly impressed, and it is in ..this way.. having of them all when even the crisis that gives this kind of fear every time is seen the child whom this similarly at the same time experiences ..very mysterious.., it is straight to grasp the sweat, and not to bear the hand normally after all, and is not ..person of those evil.. of a still good end (It is) ..food.. in the end. canIn short, this book uses one word for my feeling. --"It is very mysterious" cannot be done to describe coming this year. There is one very mysterious nation in another one corner of this world. There is one there and it is a curious power boy. --It has Harry Potter. I fell as follows similarly when reading and entered the sky at one magic.
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