Passion. This book is a study in love, anger and frustration taken to extremes. Heathcliff, a wild foundling falls madly, obsessively in love with the delicate Catherine Earnshaw. She loves him with the same fervor.




This is a story of forbidden love and its tragic outcome. Heathcliff and Catherine's 'love' lay bare their own souls, and those of everyone unfortunate enough to know the pair.

Emily Bronte's writing style. For a book written in the early 1800's, it is as easy to read as any written today. She was a gifted writer and that is very apparent.

The entire premise of the book. I saw it as little more than a study in PURE dysfunctionalism operating at its best. The main characters were nothing more than petty children taking their childish grievances into adult realms with disatrous results.

Shake my head and say "This is romance?"

Emily Bronte lived her short life unhappily. She spent her life in the tiny Yorkshire village of Haworth, with her three siblings, where they were isolated from the rest of the world by a strict, eccentric father. This book was published when she was 28 years old, a year before her death. She never married, never had a love of her own, and all her frustrated longing for a normal life are revealed in this, her only novel.

ONLY because it is a classic.

It is incredibly annoying to read how these people can make a mess of even the most ordinary things.

Although 'Romance' today is defined as 'being characteristic of love or emotional attraction,' at the time Miss Bronte wrote this book, romance had a different definition. Romance in the 19th century was defined as: having free form, originality and spirit. We'd call that contemporary writing now, or list it in the drama genre. This is a romance by original definition, and only vaguely so, by current definition.

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