September 2011: Wuthering Heights

August 29, 2011 at 11:50 am Austin Book Club Leave a comment

Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
When: September 30th, 2011 @ 7pm
Where: Shelley’s Apartment (See Pingg invite)

Synopsis:
Bronte weaves a tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. Now considered a classic of English literature, it met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative’s stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty. Though her sister’s, Jane Eyre was initially considered the best of the Brontë sisters’ works, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior.