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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140620122
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0140620125
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: January 25, 2007
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Rating: - Don't begin with expectations of a romantic novel...
I had seen the 1939 film with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon (numerous times) and loved it, never failing to be moved by the love story of Heathcliff and Cathy which was portrayed so well and with such depth by Laurence Olivier in the penultimate scene (I think). The film is based on the romance of Heathcliff and Cathy but not the depth of the torment, not the bleakness of the characters, and not the destruction that their love and their circumstances results in. If you want a romantic novel, ... Read More

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Rating: - Read don't watch
No film has managed, so far, to do this book justice. It's a great read and one I come back to again and again. Gritty, brutal, beautiful and romantic (without being slushy) all at once. As with most of her books, the characters are extremely well depicted, and it's irrelevant whether you like them or not - you what know what happens next.

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Rating: - Stunning
I've just read this book for the third time, and it's certainly one of those rare finds that gets better and better with every read. Dark, brooding and passionate, Emily Bronte shows great talent as writer and demonstrates a great understanding and a great flair for the Gothic genre. Despite the unlikeable characters, the reader is sucked into their all-encompassing world of gloom, love, madness, despair and revenge. Heathcliff is certainly the greatest anti-hero created. I only wish EB's last manuscript ... Read More

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Rating: - Misleading Advertising by Penguin!
I thought it was time to expand my reading horizons with some classic literature without blowing my budget, so this Penguin Popular Classic at £2 seemed the ideal choice, particularly as, when I used the 'Search Inside' facility, it showed in the list of contents a preface, chronology, introduction and further reading.

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Rating: - The height of great literature
I've lost count of the number of times I've read this; but every time something else jumps out at me. There is something so different and hard to pin down - indefinable - about what exactly it is that makes this book so unique.

Heathcliffe and the first Catherine are almost demented in their wild passions - almost as if Emily Bronte were taking the idea of romance and passion to in insane extreme - and one of the strongest themes in the book is whether the lovers meet again after death. It seems ... Read More

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