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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Sunday, November 11, 2018 10:05 am by M. in , , ,    No comments
The journalist commenting the Great American Read results on McFarland Thistle is no Brontëite:
Books 4 (“Pride and Prejudice”), 6 (“Gone With the Wind”) and 10 (“Jane Eyre”) are all novels I’ve tried to read but were never able to get past the first couple chapters. As much as I tried, I just couldn’t get interested enough to keep going. (Amber Gerber)
Aleteia lists novels being turned into films:
Wuthering Heights
Part love story, part creepy haunting, Brontë's novel examines what happens when we judge each other too quickly, what happens when love turns into a broken heart, and the human desire for revenge. (Michael Rennier)
Cultured Vultures describes Orson Welles's Macbeth 1948 like this:
The budget definitely shows. The sets are sparse, the spaces largely empty, and fog is used to hide the limits of the sets. But despite this (or rather because of it), it all works. Welles viewed the play as “a perfect cross between Wuthering Heights (1939) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935)” and the film feels a bit like a Universal horror film. (Galen Wilson)
Reading, writing, living reviews Jane EyreReflections of a Feminist Quaker on Literature explores a controversial topic, the incest factor in Wuthering Heights.

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