Wuthering Heights (Usborne Classics Retold) by Jane Bingham

Wuthering Heights (Usborne Classics Retold) Reviews

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  Little Miss Netty

  Strangely, I liked the story in spite of the unlikable characters! The female leads, Cathy and Isabella, could at times, be peevish, selfish and arrogant, caring only for wealth and social status. Whereas some of the male characters, Edgar and Linton, were lily-livered and pathetic, although Edgar did improve later on. Heathcliff himself develops into a nasty, vengeful brute, not averse to hitting a woman and drawing blood, what a dreamboat! I felt sorry for poor Nelly, the housemaid, who had to endure all the drama and hysteria they created!
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  Chelsea Hagen

  I really enjoyed this classic. I didn't know it was going to be so dark and I like how at first I liked some of the characters and then ended up hating them.
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  Noha El-Shami

  
  من منا لم يشاهد الفيلم (الغريب) ليحيى شاهين وماجدة؟
  
  طفل صغير يعثر عليه رب أسرة في الطرقات فيحن عليه ويقرر تربيته وسط أولاده، لم تتقبله زوجته ولا ابنه الأكبر وتعطف عليه ابنته الصغرى ليكبرا سويا في البرية كهمج معتقدين نحن المشاهدين أن مصيرهما للزواج لتغير البطلة المسار باختيارها رجل آخر أكثر هنداما وتأديبا وتهذيبا لتتزوجه، فيهرب البطل ويختفي لسنوات ثم يعود بشكله الجديد لينتقم من الجميع
  
  من أخو البطلة
  ومن ابن أخو البطلة
  ومن زوج البطلة
  ومن أخت زوج البطلة
  ومن ابنة البطلة
  ومن ابنه هو شخصيا
  
  الأمر الذي لا تتمالك معه نفسك .. ما تموت بقى يا أخي وتخلصنا
  
  نسختي مختصره مأخوذه عن النسخة الأصلية ومكتوبه بأسلوب أبسط
  
  لقد أخل الاختصار في القاء المزيد من الضوء على دواخل البطل ومعاناته ودوافعه لكل هذا الحقد والحزن والانتقام ما جعل جل انتقامه من الجميع غير مقنع
  
  رغم ذلك لم أستطع تركها حتى أنهيتها؛ لحلاوة الأسلوب الأدبي مما جعل ال
  Cheerful
  
  يملأني وسط كآبة الأحداث وعدم منطقتيها في بعض الأحيان
  
  :D
  
  
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  Laura

  I read this many years ago. It is a darkly beautiful, poignant, passionate and mysterious novel. A story of misplaced love (perhaps a result of the era the novel was set in) and its consequentially terrifying results. A gothic romance with the worst case of worse-case-scenarios, making it almost an anti-romantic novel. Take everything you think about what romance is, throw it out the window and then read this book! You'll be satisfied.
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  Janine Lockhart

  Excellently told for a younger audience.
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  Kelv

  Not a bad read - the use of past tense and present tense was well done. As was the two narrators which did not distract from the story.
  I think this book felt similar to Daphne du Maurier's Rebbecca - this may have been due to similarities in Catherine (Cathy) with Rebbecca - beautiful wife dying and leaving many men lamenting them, as well as, Heathcliff and Jack Favell - spurred lovers. Whereas Mrs Danvers from Rebecca is nothing like Nelly. Further, Manderley felt similar to the Wuthering Heights in a topographical sense.
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  Maureen

  Read with my 4th grade daughter. Great story but very dark and dreary with a lot of sickness, sadness and revenge. We both liked this book a lot, one thing that got confusing was the two Catherine's (mother and daughter) and that it went all over the place in terms of starting at the end and retelling. Good Read!!
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  Paulina

  Not a bad adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Fast-paced and short but captures the essential elements of the story. I am not a big fan of any of the characters and the story in general, but when I saw the book, it made me want to reread it to refresh the story in my mind.
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  Evaxoxo

  The story overall seemd to spooky and eerie. Maybe I would enjoy the original better, I don't know. But it was romantic - in the true way and in the love way ahah In the end I adored love between Cathy and Hareton. The characters were very traumatised, I found that interesting. But very sad.
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  LadyH39

  Really loved the abridged version of this classic novel - i think it helped that I already knew the story having watched the amazing adaptation with Tom Hardy. The book is well written and gets across the sorrow and despair of all characters ….
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  Luísa Freitas

  always picturing Ralph Fiennes as my Heathcliff :)
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  Akerumi

  updating.....
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  Melissa

  the greatest love story on a book
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  Saskia

  read this with Aiden
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  Melissa Lowe

  Pretty good. Couldn't find a copy of the original when I was looking, but I had been wanting to read this for a long time.
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  Astrid

  Lo leí cuando era muy pequeña, y me marcó tanto que no lo he olvidado.
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  Amber

  Por que a veces podemos confundirnos a la hora de elegir
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  Anubhuti

  Thrill, suspense...a tinch of horror and an awesome plot. A very good book to read.
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  Sara

  i juz love it..it's a strange book..heee
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  Barb Sweazey

  Somewhat tedious to get through, but glad I did. Now I can put this classic behind me.