Next up: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

 

I read this book as a teenager and was captivated by the gothic passion, the ungoverned emotion, the desolate landscape, the cruelty.  It is one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in the English Literature cannon, and Emily Brontë is revered as one of the finest writers of the nineteenth century .

Emily Brontë’s sister Charlotte wrote shortly after her death, “Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know. I scarcely think it is.”

Wuthering Heights does not stray far from the gothic traditions of the desolation of the moonless landscape, visitations from the supernatural, forgotten tumbledown ruins and a pervading sense of fear and unease. But it surpasses the genre, it offers so much more for the reader, it’s haunting themes and symbolism, and most of all its turbulent, doomed love story.

I have bought an audiobook to revisit this masterpiece, it came highly recommended for the wonderful accents and I can't wait to start.