Emily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsRead about the other books on the list.
I [Molly Odintz] know, none of us like to think of culture in competition, but the fact remains that we can only read a certain number of books in our lives (a total you can calculate based on this simple formula). My resentment of Wuthering Heights stems from high school English, when I was robbed of my chance to discuss Kafka’s Metamorphosis for longer than a week, because Wuthering Heights, and its concomitant endlessly boring romanticism, had taken up two months of stultifying class discussion time I would never, ever get back.
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The Page 99 Test: Wuthering Heights.
--Marshal Zeringue
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