Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Part 1

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 142

  May 22, 2017 

Book 42 - Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte (2016)
 Part 1 - pages 1-256
Reading Time - 1 hour

I was on a trip recently and had my e-book reader along. I had downloaded some free books from the Gutenberg library and browsed through them, looking for something different to read (other than Dick Francis). I decided on Wuthering Heights. I might have read this in high school... but had only a very vague notion of what the book is about. I know some blogger friends who are totally enamored with the "hero" of the story, Heathcliff, so I thought I'd give it a read.

Well... it was nothing like what I imagined... or what I imagined that I recalled about it. It's a pretty brutal story with a fair bit of cruelty and downright psychological abuse. This was the only book that Emily Bronte wrote... she died fairly young... and I can only wonder what made her write such a brutal story. It is definitely not a Victorian romance... and maybe that is the point. The story may, perhaps, show the real interactions that go on behind the doors of fancy houses. It wasn't all sweetness and light. It took a bit to get used to their old-fashioned way of speaking but it was definitely readable.