![]() In spite of much power and cleverness in spite of its truth to life in the remote nooks and corners of England, 'Wuthering Heights' is a disagreeable story. The execution, however, is good: grant the writer all that is requisite as regards matter, and the delineation is forcible and truthful. The success is not equal to the abilities of the writer chiefly because the incidents are too coarse and disagreeable to be attractive, the very best being improbable, with a moral taint about them, and the villainy not leading to results sufficient to justify the elaborate pains taken in depicting it. Publication: SpectatorĪn attempt to give novelty and interest to fiction, by resorting to those singular 'characters' that used to exist everywhere, but especially in retired and remote places. Reviews marked with * were found in Emily's desk after her death. ![]() The book was first published in December 1847. Some also believed that Currer Bell (Charlotte) and Ellis Bell (Emily) were the same. Notes: Wuthering Heights was initially published under the ambiguous pseudonym of "Ellis Bell" so many early reviewers believed it to be written by a man.
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