Wuthering News

Trespass by Valerie Martin is reviewed in The Telegraph. Wuthering Heights is mentioned:

Intrusion is also a significant theme in the novel that Chloe is illustrating, Wuthering Heights. When envisaging Heathcliff, the foundling who encroaches on the lives of the well-to-do Earnshaw family, she takes Ellen Dean's remark that he is a gypsy as a sign that he might be Eastern European, another link with the dreaded Salome. (...)
She is not afraid to take risks. Like Emily Brontë, she kills off a central character midway through the novel, even though that death, like Catherine Earnshaw's, robs the narrative of much of its energy. (Michael Arditti)

Another review can be read today on Independent Online.

Teenage readers is the subject of this article in The Record. One of the them says:

One of her favourite books is Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which she read when she was in Grade 6. She's persistent.
"I didn't get it at first. Then I re-read it." (Barbara Aggenholm)

Sp!ked reviews Patrick Hamiltons's 1941 novel Hangover Square. According to the reviewer the story is very similar in spirit to Wuthering Heights:

In many ways it’s like Wuthering Heights written entirely from Heathcliff’s perspective – if Cathy were heartless as well as wild and if Heathcliff were, at bottom, a rather sad and kind, gentle giant, who circumstances had bereaved and made alone. (Emily Hill)

The Jakarta Post illustrates the dangers of reading Wuthering Heights just before writing an article about an artists' collective exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia:

Lisa Sumardi gives her illuminated sirens titles like Lovely Lady and Beautiful Legs. Wati Karmojono's small white house, Bukit Damai (Peaceful Cliff Face) (2007) stands 43 centimeters tall. This delicate creation could be a birdhouse or a toy -- it is placed at just the right height for a child to peer inside -- and is lit by a single tea light, evoking a ghostly doll's house or Heathcliff keeping a light in the window in Wuthering Heights. (Eilish Kidd & A. Junaidi)

On the blogosphere: j_spiderwebs reviews Cara Lockwood's Wuthering High. Lesmizphan talks about Bernard J. Taylor's Wuthering Heights musical (the 1991 concept album).

Wuthering Heights must be his star project, yet despite its gripping tunes, its lyrics provide a bland taste of his writings. They lack the poetic and romantic nature expected of an Emily Bronte novella. The words tend to get repetitive and long-winded at times, eg during You Were My True Love and I See A Change in You. The element of "Love" is too blatantly expressed -- subtleness and an old European flair seem to be lacking here. But in contrast to his other works, this would make the cut. Lesley Garrett, THE soprano diva, stars as Cathy. Unfortunately I'm not too fond of her flighty voice. It's void of much emotions and solid timbre -- too breezy and uniform thoughout the recording. (Le)

Categories: Books, Music, Theatre, Wuthering Heights