Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Wuthering Heights

In 2007 Wuthering Heights (purchase here) was voted the best-loved romance in the UK (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/aug/10/books.booksnews). Here are some things you are going to love about Wuthering Heights:

  • A Byronic hero-Heathcliff, the wild-haired, unruly, brooding devil of the estate.
  • Cathy Earnshaw- The little-sweet, little-sour heroine, ripped from her love and from this life all too early.
  • Practically-brother-and-sister characters in love. (the opposite of brother and sister characters practically in love, as in Mill on the Floss)
  • Moors (what moor can I say)
  • You can play Kate Bush as you read! The lyrics are mostly directly from the book.
  • There are about 15 movie adaptations of this classic. The 1992 version stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche (yow!)

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