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Wuthering Heights

April 19, 2003

Whithering Heights?

In light of the number of search requests we get for:

Wethering Heights
Whethering Heights
Whithering Heights
Withering Heights
Wurthering Heights

I'm adding this entry to set the record straight: it's Wuthering Heights.

Despite being a Victorian novel, Wuthering Heights is unique. It does not moralize, it does not paint a picture of genteel society, and it is not filled with fainting women and simple but resolute men. No one in this novel is nice. The characters hate and hate openly, and are unable to draw a definitive line between where hating ends and loving begins. They are forces of nature, much like the decaying yet heather-covered moors that both isolate and free them.

I've already mentioned here that I've read Wuthering Heights about 10 times. I realize that borders on being obsessive. However, everyone else should read it at least once.

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So are we going to make that one of the monthly reads?

If someone else wants to do it, it'd be fine with me. I won't, simply because there are so many other great not-so-well-known titles I'd like to bring to the group's attention.

I wonder if anyone is going to volunteer for July.

I have seen Monty Python's Semaphore version of Wurthering Heights, does that count?

Close enough, Hunter.

Now it's even easier: NEW HEIGHTS: Erika Christensen, Mike Vogel and Katherine Heigl close to inking a deal to star in MTV's modern musical adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

(From E!Online)

What if I've seen the Carol Burnett skit? Harvey Korman (as Heathcliff) carries her to the window....and drops her a few times. Does that count? Plus I saw Sir Laurence O in that version. Plus, ok I read it too.