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Wuthering Heights

(Everyman's library)

By Charlotte Bronte

(534)

| Paperback | 9781857150025

Book Description

Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.Continue

Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.

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  • 3 people find this helpful

    Powerful, obssesive, tormented, and passionate.

    There are many different copies of Wuthering Heights available. I'd recommend the Penguin collection, not only because it's printed in reasonable fonts and paper quality, but also the introduction by Pauline Nestor is very well written. It points ... (continue)

    Powerful, obssesive, tormented, and passionate.

    There are many different copies of Wuthering Heights available. I'd recommend the Penguin collection, not only because it's printed in reasonable fonts and paper quality, but also the introduction by Pauline Nestor is very well written. It points out lots of interesting aspects of the book.

    It is a pity that not everyone appreciates the dark passion in the book. But this is definitely one of my favorites.

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    ― material girl said on Jun 15, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • 3 people find this helpful

    Una bellissima storia, ricca non solo di amore, ma anche di odio e di vendetta.
    Insomma, leggendolo si esplora appieno il territorio della passione.

    Aggiungo che leggerlo in lingua originale evidenzia la grande attenzione dell'autrice alle parole, come strumento rivelatore di sentimenti e ... (continue)

    Una bellissima storia, ricca non solo di amore, ma anche di odio e di vendetta.
    Insomma, leggendolo si esplora appieno il territorio della passione.

    Aggiungo che leggerlo in lingua originale evidenzia la grande attenzione dell'autrice alle parole, come strumento rivelatore di sentimenti e condizioni sociali.

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    ― Megarahwitch said on Apr 17, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    Wuthering Heights_Emily Bronte

    «I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?»

    It is a story about how feelings can be strong, but, at the same time, can destroy you. I'm thinking of a boy and a girl being each the half of the other one and fighting against the conventions of the society in which they live. I'm thinking of how th ... (continue)

    «I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?»

    It is a story about how feelings can be strong, but, at the same time, can destroy you. I'm thinking of a boy and a girl being each the half of the other one and fighting against the conventions of the society in which they live. I'm thinking of how things can get worse and worse when you feel you will have to live a woefully life, because the best part of you, your soul, lies in the body of someone else and all your world, everything you could have been or have done, is crashing down.

    It's a story about the fatal attraction set up by the fate, one day, when you certainly wouldn't have thought of your life being indissoluble from the one of another human being.

    She, seeking a compromise with her soul and with her mind.
    He, seeking her and nothing else.

    The perfect correspondence between a man and a woman and the awfull condition of sharing the same life but from a different point of view: each one looking for freedom and independence. Both trying to leave anyone but themselves, because they're aware of the fact that the world could end but, even then, they shall always be together, being the two halves of the same heart. «If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger».

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    ― MandiMandi said on Jul 11, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Bellissimo! Ma i discorsi dei servi in dialetto ve li raccomando tutti!

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    ― M3B said on Nov 2, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • So che forse sarò impopolare ma a me Cime Tempestose non è piaciuto gran che. E ciò ha stupito anche me stessa. L'ho letto parecchi anni fa, in un periodo in cui mi ero appassionata particolarmente agli scrittori inglesi sette-ottocenteschi. Per passare da Dickens alle sorelle Bronte il passo era st ... (continue)

    So che forse sarò impopolare ma a me Cime Tempestose non è piaciuto gran che. E ciò ha stupito anche me stessa. L'ho letto parecchi anni fa, in un periodo in cui mi ero appassionata particolarmente agli scrittori inglesi sette-ottocenteschi. Per passare da Dickens alle sorelle Bronte il passo era stato breve.
    Ebbene ho trovato la figura di Heathcliff più simile a una caricatura che a un uomo. Grottesco. Ecco come definirei il suo personaggio. Discorso simile per la sua amata. E così un vago senso di delusione ha iniziato a insinuarsi fin dai primi capitoli e mi ha accompagnato fino alla fine, all'ultima pagina.

    Non mi sento comunque di sconsigliarlo. Credo che nelle mani giuste questo libro possa essere veramente molto ben apprezzato.

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    ― Chocolatemuffin said on Sep 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

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