Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte

I found it very hard going - quite dreary and depressing and nothing like I was expecting, no passion or great feeling on show. The Yorkshire talk of Joseph is difficult to understand 2/5

Difficult to understand Yorkshire dialect and follow the plot until I had read half of book. Although it was written many years ago once I had understood the plot I enjoyed the second half of the novel, and its ultimate happy ending, as it had been quite dark at times 3/5

A book of its time, some would say great. I didn't/couldn't accept a lot of the plot -it all seemed a bit silly and people overreacted to little things. Also not much atmosphere - I expected lots of hauntings and descriptions of the Moors. Not what I expected!! 2 1/2