I've a different edition; beautiful, leatherbound with gold imprinting, English side by side the original Greek - can't find it here.

This play is one that should definitely be on your to be read list.

kathy! oh kathy!

The classic novel about creepy old Heathcliffe and his entourage. I re-read this book at Halloween, and it really is a fitting time to read it then.

I had no earthly idea what people see in this book. I do love classics and I do love women writers. So what's so wrong with this one? I couldn't stand Heathcliff. I hated Cathy and thought she was a wimp

Can anyone out there help me understand the value of this classic?
I would love the help!

Heathcliff is dreamy...

BLURB
the story is narrated by Lockwood, a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw family, who had been witness of the interlocked destinies of the original owners of the Heights. In a series of flashbacks and time shifts, Brontë draws a powerful picture of the enigmatic Heathcliff, who is brought to Heights from the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw. Heathcliff is treated as Earnshaw's own children, Catherine and Hindley. After his death Heathcliff is bullied by Hindley, who loves Catherine, but she marries Edgar Linton. Heathcliff 's destructive force is unleashed, and his first victim is Catherine, who dies giving birth to a girl, another Catherine. Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister, whom he had married, flees to the south. Their son Linton and Catherine are married, but always sickly Linton dies. Hareton, Hindley's son, and the young widow became close. Increasingly isolated and alienated from daily life, Heathcliff experiences visions, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with Catherine.

REVIEW
I HATE this book with a passion beyond description. All could have been avoided if even one of the immmense cast had a conscious. But no, these two dimensional idiots are all idiots - incapable of personal growth......GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
And Heathcliffe - how can anyone place him in the same light as Mr Darcy or Rochester? A romantic hero - I think not!


UPDATE
My mother recently re-read this book for the first time since she was a teenager, with her book club. Though all the women had loved it when they were younger, they felt in the main the same way as I do!
rotton sentimental drivel!