Wuthering Heights

by Evelyn Attwood, Emily Brontë

[Penguin Readers Level 5]

Classic / British English On the wild and lonely Yorkshire moors, a tragic story unfolds as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff fall in love. But it is a dangerous love, filled with unhappiness and suffering. When Catherine finally breaks Heathcliff 's heart, Heathcliff decides to break everyone else's and plans a terrible revenge.

Genres: Classics

168 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1847

Reviews

[Lady An ☽ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Siempre permanecerá en el fondo de mi corazón (aunque suene cursi, así lo describo). La tragedia, el odio y el amor como nunca han sido representados...ni la tan famosa Romeo y Julieta puede competir con Cumbres Borrascosas. Amo a Heathcliff, sus cambios de caracter. Su devoción y loco amor por Cathy, hicieron de éste libro..mi favorito.
La mejor parte, digna de un cuento de Poe o de Lovecraft; símbolo del horror y de la escena gótica en que fue escrita: cuando Heathcliff entra a la casa para ver el féretro de Catalina rompiendo el vidrio de la puerta..con tanta desesperación, pasión y ansias, bronca y rabia, tristeza y locura, todo por verla por última vez, sacarle el relicario del cuello con tanto dolor y abrazarla con una desolación nunca antes vista.
Y la de veces que trata de desenterrarla..
El final, uno de los más tristes jamás escritos...

[Tony Bittner-Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful story, but each of the characters was unbearable. Like other readers, I thought it was a love story, but it was more about arrogance, hatred, and revenge. Why didn't anybody pushed Heathcliff into the moors to get rid of him for good? He was such a violent and destructive man.

[Kelly Burns · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always imagined this book to be a love story, after watching the wild, yet seductive Laurence Olivier play Heathcliff. Yet, I find it difficult to like any of the characters, even after reading it several times. It is essentially, to me anyway, a story of how love in it most pure form can lead to revenge and ruin.

Heathcliff. Has virtually no redeeming features, aside from his love for Cathy - and she treats him with contempt. I find her haughty and proud and subject to fits of cruelty - degrading Heathcliff for his baseness and low birth.

Yet, despite my dislike of the characters, I do love the book. It was hard work the first time I read it, especially Joseph's speech, but it has a raw intensity to it which, must have come as a shock to the literary world when it was first published. Needless to say; it's no Jane Austen and Heathcliff is no Mr Darcy.

The writing style, the imperfections of the characters, the cruelty of love and harshness in the deeds of Heathcliff are indicative of the cold York Moors themselves. The novel is an encapsulation of a time and place; haunting, wild and superstitious. For that, it is actually timeless. I was once told that to read, is to hear a voice from a time long gone and to feel it resonate in ones own soul. In Wuthering Heights that is certainly true.

[Yasser Negm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wuthering Heights is about how hatred can be born from love and how Pride and selfishness can be a constitutional part of them...to know Heathcliff is to know The Beautiful Mountain that's about to erupt and kill all the people...and to know how Mr.Earnshow (in a way) gave him everything but took it with him to the Grave... He was only left with his love to Catherine which he kept it till he got to his own Grave.... But When Catherine was taken from him as she degraded him... his love turned to revenge from those Two Families that made him miserable and he swore to ruin all They will ever have and so The revenge Began

[Dimas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this one has the slow plot. I am quite confusing how the crisis suddenly at its peak and trough. I think the conflict is just like another eighteenth centuries problem.
Yet, I like the way the story goes. I can imagine what Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, Gimmerton Church, and The Moor look like.

[Justine · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Because what is not connected with her, to me? I cannot look down at this floor without seeing her face shaped on the stones! In every cloud, in every tree, I see her!”

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eu amei muito esse livro quando eu li em português, e apesar de essa ser uma versão resumida da história, eu gostei bastante

[Antonella Lampi · Rating 5 out of 5]

No hay final feliz... o sí?

"Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?"

"I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine"

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🫀🫀

[Jacqueline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Your modern day enemies to lovers COULD NEVER

[Peter Medhat · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars.

I felt I bit lost at the illustration of the family tree and the slow-paced plot. The representation of the characters was so accurate that it almost felt illegal. Like, it felt too realistic as a family living in the old ages, as if there fighting for the throne. However, it felt too true to life that it started to became a little irritating. After all, it's just the story of a girl fighting for her love...

[Lisbeth Tischbein · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

Ach, ich weiß nicht.. ich habe gedacht, dass das ein Liebesroman ist, mit ganz viel Geschmachte usw. Aber nein, es ging nur um Intrigen. Die Erzählung war teilweise sehr trocken und ich musste mich leider auch manchmal zum Lesen zwingen..

Schade, wieder ein Klassiker, von dem ich leider nicht so begeistert bin.

[Ayman Bashndy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A romantic story that is far from being cheesy or tacky yet it draws your breath away.

[Farah safwat · Rating 3 out of 5]

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