Epochal Novel

What's the book that the writer China Miéville recommends over and over again? According to Elle:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Hardly original, I know, but it just never ceases to offer more, even as it also mysteriously withdraws, this epochal novel. (Riza Cruz)

iNews selects classic novels (not the usual ones) for this summer:

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)

Jean Rhys’s moody, tropical prequel to Jane Eyre is as much of a must-read as Brontë’s original. A feminist addition to that most famous of gothic novels, it imagines the backstory of the wife whom Mr Rochester was keeping in the attic. Antoinette Cosway, who grows up in Jamaica with her widowed mother, is later set up with the elusive Rochester in an arranged marriage. As Eyre readers will know, he renames her Bertha – a symptom of his determination to strip her of her identity. Wide Sargasso Sea flips between perspectives, and keeps you on your toes until the very end – it’s gripping, moving and, with its colonial themes, highly political. (Emily Bootle)

The Handbook reacts to Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights project. And some scattered Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever news here and there like this one in The National Tribune,