Book and Sword
  • Home
  • Simple living
  • Book Journal

I am a lost girl, a traveler,
a dragon rider, a thief, a dreamer.
I am a reader.

Classics: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

3/27/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
This book is a part of my "All books mentioned on 'Friends-tv show' challenge"
I could not remember if I read this one in high school, so I picked it up. Also I want to read and own more classics in 2017 (one of my resolutions). I haven't got a big collection, but I am working on it.


Wuthering Heights was Emily Bronte's only book, but if you can only write one book in your life - this is the way to do it. I thought it was absolutely brilliant! I own the Barnes and Noble Classics edition, which came with an introduction, a short biography and a preface by her sister, Charlotte Bronte. I decided to read all of them since I did not remember much about the Bronte's from school. I am quite confident that reading the biography and a preface made all the difference for me while I was reading this book. Reading Charlotte's description of her sister's only book, how it was rejected by the publishers, her sudden illness and her short-lived life - set the right tone for this novel.
This book is quite different from anything that I have ever read. If this book could talk for itself, it would be screaming its head off with anger. I am simply astonished at how a book about very dull lives of very regular people can be so frightening to the reader. It took me a while to read it, because I could only read so many pages a day, before I have had enough of the madness that were the two main characters. You know when in a book you usually pick your favorite character and then your least favorite one? Well, how about a book in which ALL of the characters are your least favorite ones? Characters so horribly selfish, arrogant, cross, indignant and spiteful that it makes you want to throw the book out of the window. Yet, you keep reading. If that isn't a sign of a great book then I don't know what is.

​I have also noticed that Wuthering Heights is often labeled as a romance, which is so wrong. This is not a romance novel, but all of the events do center around romantic notions.

Structure of the story line was quite odd, but somehow it flew very nicely. I felt like reading a memoir of a family (a very messed up family) starting with the grandparents and finishing up with the youngest of kids all grown up. Illnesses and death were woven into the story like they were as natural as a morning breakfast (which goes to show the state of living in the early 1800). I have to admit that it did get a little confusing at times, for most of the characters shared same names, but I took my time with the reading, so that was not a big issue at all. Also all of this "marrying your own cousins" ordeal shook me a little bit, but then again, different times. Come to think of it maybe that is why they all were so feeble and sickly, because they kept interbreeding with each other.
The only annoying thing in this book was the broken language at which one of the characters spoke, as it was incredibly hard to read and follow, and it became very irritating, very quickly. Luckily, he wasn't that important in the book anyway.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Aspiring author.
    ​A woman on a mission to simplify her life, while reading as many books and drinking as much coffee as possible.

    2020 Reading Challenge

    2020 Reading Challenge
    Iryna *Book and Sword* has read 26 books toward her goal of 52 books.
    hide
    26 of 52 (50%)
    view books

    Archives

    July 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    December 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017

    Ebates Coupons and Cash Back

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Simple living
  • Book Journal