Originally E was for Eliot in my Classic Reads A to Z Challenge. I read Middlemarch by George Eliot until Part V. I didn’t like ANY of the characters, the plot, nothing, nothing. So I bailed. I so very rarely bail on a book that I’m still suffering guilt! However. Sometimes it is best just to put the book down. Maybe I’ll try it another year. Probably not.
Now that I have an open spot in my challenge it hit me when I saw all the Emily Bronte 200 years old and Wuthering Heights post and articles…E FOR EMILY! I have not read Wuthering Heights in a long long time and it is about time I read it again. I do believe the last time I read this was 15-20 years ago!
Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern England, to Maria Branwelland an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. An English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
`Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’
When her father brings back an orphan from a trip to Liverpool, Catherine Earnshaw is fascinated by the strange, ferel boy. Alike in spirit, Cathy and Heathcliff soon form a bond – running riot as children and, later, embarking on a fierce love affair. But when intense passion turns to violent betrayal, Heathcliff flees – returning as a rich man with an eye for vengeance. Years later, caught in a storm, Mr Lockwood seeks refuge with strangers. And, as wind and rain rage outside, he is drawn into the secrets of Wuthering Heights – and the wild Yorkshire Moors which surround it.
I own a couple of copies of Wuthering Heights. Now to decide which copy to read next month. I plan to start this Labor Day Weekend.
Reading on…….
