Wuthering Heights

A gothic masterpiece. Emily Bronte wrote one novel and it was this perfect, savage thing.

The second generation story mirrors and redeems the first. Brilliant structural choice.

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Chills, every single time.

I found it bleak and exhausting, but I can't deny its power. Emily Bronte was fearless.

Not a love story - a story about obsession and destruction. All the more powerful for it.

The Yorkshire moors are as much a character as Heathcliff or Catherine. Atmospheric and haunting.

Everyone in this book is terrible and I couldn't stop reading. That's Emily Bronte's genius.

There is nothing else like this in literature. The raw, destructive passion is unlike anything Austen ever wrote.

The nested narrative structure is bold. Nelly Dean as narrator adds an unreliable filter to everything.

Wild, passionate, and utterly unique. Heathcliff is one of literature's most complex antiheroes.