Wuthering Heights

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Immerse yourself in the tempestuous world of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. This hauntingly beautiful novel unravels a tale of forbidden love, revenge, and tumultuous emotions as captivating characters navigate the wild moors of 19th-century Yorkshire.

A tale of passion and dark romance!

Emily Bronte’s iconic and haunting masterpiece Gripping story of passionate love and bitter vendettas Atmospheric setting on the desolate Yorkshire moors Complex and deeply flawed characters that leave a lasting impact A timeless exploration of the destructive power of obsession and desire

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fingerprint! Publishing; First Edition (1 January 2013); Prakash Books India Pvt Ltd, 113A, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002, +9111-23265358
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8172344899
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8172344894
Reading age ‏ : ‎ Customer suggested age: 15 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 242 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.4 x 12.7 x 19.4 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 1 count
Importer ‏ : ‎ Prakash Books India Pvt Ltd
Packer ‏ : ‎ Prakash Books India Pvt Ltd

Reviewer: Onkar gite
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Emily knows how to love and how to hate.
Review: The language might be a little too heavy if you aren’t used to reading books, especially english classics, though once you get the hang of it, it will be easy.The story itself is memorable. The old novels shows the side of love which is scarcely present nowadays. They are more passionate, more expressive, full of love, hate, anger and more love.Emily’s prose is a masterpiece. She could have written trash and i still would have read her. She just captures you and keeps you in her words. You will be asking for more.I have heard that her sisters works are very similar, so if you like this one, definitely go for others. Brontë family has blue blood in writing.Regarding the book’s delivery, it arrived in perfect condition. Fingerprint publications uses translations available in public domains, the reason why they are much cheaper than, say, penguin. Still, if you are buying English literature, go for fingerprint if you don’t want to splurge a fortune.

Reviewer: SS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing
Review: The novel on its own is ofcourse perfect! The story is captivating, haunting and yet the ending is beautiful!Absolutely adored Catherine (the daughter) and Hareton! The story as a cycle of abuse being discontinued by Cathy and Hareton and them choosing love and kindness over hatred!! It was absolutely beautiful to read.Now as for the copy of the book, it also of perfectly good quality. Worth every penny. The print is beautiful, clear and the cover is intact. A must buy!

Reviewer: Placeholder
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very hard read
Review: This is my favorite book. I do not say that lightly – I’ve read quite a lot from all different genres – but this is my favorite book. Of all time. Ever. The ladies over at The Readventurer kindly allowed me to get my feelings of utter adoration for Wuthering Heights off my chest in their “Year of the Classics” feature, but I now realize it’s time I posted a little something in this blank review space. I mean, come on, it’s my favorite book so it deserves better than empty nothingness.So, what do I love so much about Wuthering Heights? Everything. Okay, maybe not. That wouldn’t really be saying it strongly enough.What I love about this novel is the setting; the wilderness. This is not a story about niceties and upper class propriety. This is the tale of people who aren’t so socially acceptable, who live away from the strict rules of civilization – it’s almost as if they’re not quite from the world we know. The isolation of the setting out on the Yorkshire moors between the fictional dwellings of The Heights and Thrushcross Grange emphasizes how far removed these characters are from social norms, how unconventional they are, and how lonely they are.This is a novel for readers who can appreciate unlikeable characters; readers who don’t have to like someone to achieve a certain level of understanding of them and their circumstances. People are not born evil… so what makes them that way? What torments a man so much that he refuses to believe he has any worth? What kind of person digs up the grave of their loved one so they can see them once again? Heathcliff was not created to be liked or to earn your forgiveness. Emily Brontë simply tells his story from the abusive and unloved childhood he endured, to his obsession with the only person alive who showed him any real kindness, to his adulthood as an angry, violent man who beats his wife and imprisons the younger Cathy in order to make her marry his son.It would be so easy to hate Heathcliff, and I don’t feel that he is some dark, sexy hero like others often do. But I appreciate what Emily Brontë attempts to teach us about the cycle of violence and aggression. Heathcliff eventually becomes little more than the man he hates. By being brought up with beatings and anger he in turn unleashes it on everyone else. And Cathy is no delicate flower either. What hope did Heathcliff have when the only person he ever loved was so selfish and vindictive? But I love Emily Brontë for creating such imperfect, screwed-up characters.This is a dark novel that deals with some very complicated people, but I think in the end we are offered the possibility of peace and happiness through Cathy (younger) and Hareton’s relationship, and the suggestion that Cathy (older) and Heathcliff were reunited in the afterlife. I had an English teacher in high school that said Cathy and Heathcliff’s personalities and their relationship were too much for this world and that peace was only possible for them in the next. I have no idea if this was something Ms Bronte intended, but the romantic in me likes to imagine that it’s true.

Reviewer: Divya
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just wow!!!
Review: The plot of the book centres on Catherine and Heathcliff’s twisted, dark, rebellious, and passionate love. With the complicated relationships between families, betrayal, jealousy, and retaliation are portrayed remarkably well.One of the best classics I have read to date and my current favourite. If you like reading classics, this is a must read.A few lines that made my heart skip a beat‘Oh, Nelly! you know she has not! You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton she spends a thousand on me!’‘He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’‘Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form— drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’

Reviewer: Elisa Fernández
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It’s exactly as it looks in the pictures, it’s a great gift.

Reviewer: Regis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Readers either love or hate Wuthering Heights with a passion but under no circumstance are they indifferent and there is a reason for that. This book is a too powerful force of nature that devours the reader and does not let they leave. Many hate to be dragged like that. I’m among those who love it, and here are three reasons why:First, I was overwhelmed by the intricate structure of the narrative, which flashes back and forward and intertwines several layers of narrators, from the ostensive Lockwood, to the fantastic voice of Nelly Dean, and then in another layer to what Nelly heard and read from Heathcliff, Isabella and Zillah. Emily Brontë manages to transition from one voice to the next smoothly and seamlessly, while sustaining a cohesive and consistent narrative that, for the length of time it covers, moves really fast. Indeed, I was amazed with how well she cuts any ‘shoe leather’ (there is particularly one transition, from the moors to inside Heathcliff’s house in Chapter 27 that made me wow.) Nelly is a formidable storyteller if not a film editor, not only for what she tells and comments but also for what she disregards or conveniently excludes altogether. Some people say there are unnecessary characters, Lockwood being the most notorious one. But to me, having Lockwood to open room for Nelly is as clever as using Ellis Bell as a pen name, because with that Emily Brontë not only circumvented the prejudice against women authors in the Victorian Society but managed to tell a story in which a housekeeper has a lot to say and do. And imho this device also serves the plot well, because Lockwood’s interest on Catherine adds to his unreliability (while he seems to let Nelly’s voice reverberate untouched) as much as Nelly’s own subtle influence on the destinies of the Earnshaws and Lintons goes unnoticed.Second, there is a formidable storytelling that is both dark, cold and gloomy but also bright, warm, tender and beautiful, and this balance is so well put that readers can either see the novel as a romantic love story or a horror tale of violence and hatred. There are many duplicates and characters are also multifaceted. Most readers detest all characters because of their arrogant, selfish and even violent behavior but, in my view, they are tremendously rich of vulnerability and ambiguity. There is no one to clearly root for but at least to me it was difficult to hate them either. I may be a too indulgent kind of reader, but I felt WH was like Shyamalan’s Servant where characters are mostly dislikeable but you just can’t let them go. They are a too interesting pack of people to be forsaken. Virginia Woolf describes these characters as impossible in the real world, but yet captivating, which she attributes to Emily’s rarest of all powers in a poet: “She could free life from its dependence on facts; with a few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body.” These characters are not real people, but they feel like people you know all the same.Third, there is the supernatural. From the first scene when Lockwood meets Heathcliff, it became clear that Emily Brontë was no Jane Austen. Indeed, I began WH imagining Heathcliff as a kind of Servant’s Uncle George in his natural habitat, rude and rough but tough and disciplined. Then there is the dreamlike haunting scene in Catherine’s room (what was that, Kate Bush?) and the creepy, supernatural atmosphere never leaves completely anymore. The second half of the book that covers the second generation was so suffocating that I kept asking myself, as indeed I did in Servant, “why didn’t these people escape the evil influence of Heathcliff and go live their lives peacefully elsewhere?” Like Leanne Grayson in Servant, Heathcliff’s ability to take control of people seems superhuman, it transcends. Some scholars even see Heathcliff as a demonic figure in the Miltonian tradition of Frankenstein.I didn’t know before finishing WH that the Brontë Sisters were not from upper classes in England and wrote their books from their reclusive lives in the far lands of Yorkshire (that made me admire the power of Emily’s ideas even more.) Inspiration certainly came from her readings, and I can see Hamlet and Macbeth in WH, while its creepy conclusion goes along with Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (and now I think, Heathcliff a gypsy just like Esmeralda!). Harold Bloom recognizes Lord Byron, and other scholars explore the hidden parallels of WH with John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Richard Ellman mentions that James Joyce once said to Eugene Jolas, while reading WH: “This woman had pure imagination; Kipling had it too, and certainly Yeats.” That is more or less how I felt when finishing WH: Emily Brontë’s imagination is powerful and irresistible as is her language and style, even when she goes over the top. WH is a force of nature that is futile to resist, it engulfs you with its hyperbolic style, cruel and violent characters, and bleaky and foggy atmosphere. In my case, it took me completely and does not seem to let me go anytime soon.

Reviewer: Beatriz Lima
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: O livro é divino. Comprei para aprimorar a leitura na lingua inglesa e não me decepcionei. Entrega rápida.

Reviewer: R.O.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This story is so captivatingly dramatic. I’m not usually into drama/romance but this book is so well written that it was be difficult to put it down.Also this hardcover is simply gorgeous. Easy to hold AND looks pretty on a bookshelf. Win win win!

Reviewer: Blue
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Farklı kapak geldi, onun dışında her zamanki Oxford Classics

4.5

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