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A guide to the classics: Wuthering Heights
| August 23, 2011 | Posted by Jess Kadow under guide to the classics |
Despite the fact that many people’s first reaction to the title Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is to sing lines from the Kate Bush song, this novel has clearly made enough impact in the literary world for it to be considered one of the staple classics along with Austen’s novels. But Wuthering Heights is far from the cosy world of arranged marriages and family tiffs of Pride and Prejudice. It conveys an entirely new world comprising of deep, raw emotion and violence that is beautifully offset by the simultaneously dangerous and passionate setting of the misty moorland, a setting which reflects the isolation of the characters as well as contributing to the gothic atmosphere Brontë creates. Even the name boasts… more
