For the broken-hearted

It's Valentine's Day so the are some nearly-compulsory references today. The Huffington Post Detroit suggests

 anything by the Brontë sisters or Jane Austen for a classic true love tale. 

The Economists's Prospero posts about Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance and Australia's Radio National features editor Andrea Clarke. Click here to listen.

The Philippine Star quotes from Wuthering Heights among other 'books that smolder'.

The Daily Mail looks at thing from a heartbroken point of view:

And if you are broken-hearted, just remember that you are in excellent company. Think Heathcliff, Lear, and Romeo and Juliet. (Virginia Ironside)

Crikey's Lit-icism says something similar, albeit with different characters:

Luckily, there’s no better therapy for the lovelorn than reading great literature. When it feels like nobody else in the world could possibly understand your unique form of heartbreak, it’s a peculiarly delicious comfort to indulge in Gothic romance and pretend you’re Catherine Earnshaw, all pale-faced and wild-haired in those wintry English moors. It’s comforting to share your loneliness with Jane Eyre, or torture yourself with the excruciating loveliness and despair of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, or channel your bitter jealousy through The End of the Affair. (Rebecca Howden)

And MSNBC also thinks that Wuthering Heights is a book 'to help heal a broken heart':

‘Wuthering Heights’
By Emily Brönte [SIC]
(Signet Classics)
You’ll forget all about your own inappropriate dating choices as you’re swept away to the English moors and Wuthering Heights. The story unfolds and you soon learn about the doomed love between uncouth Heathcliff and impetuous Catherine. While they aren’t meant to be, at least not in this life, the tale continues as Heathcliff tries to strong-arm Cathy’s daughter into marrying his son. Yeah, that doesn’t go as planned, either. Brönte’s [SIC] atmospheric novel takes the cake when it comes to unrequited, unfulfilled passion. (Jennifer Worick)

Well, enough of that. This Observer-Dispatch columnist admits:

 The first time I read a classic and actually enjoyed it: “Jane Eyre.” (Kathleen Duncan)

Flickr user John Ormerod has uploaded a very Wuthering image. Margo's Corner posts about Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre is discussed by Birdy's Books and Ranee S. Clark. Chocolate à Chuva reviews Juliet Gael's Romancing Miss Brontë.