Though, there seems to be a disturbing lack of the Thomas Hardy love. Every single list of these I've read, no one has read either of his books mentioned. Alas.
I also find Jane Eyre superior to Wuthering Heights, and I was very surprised when I read WH, like the above commenters, that it was supposed to be a great romance. I loathed Heathcliff and Catherine, not so much for themselves than the fact that they destroyed the lives of all the people around them, who, because they were relatively normal and couldn't understand The Great Passion, were characterized as hopeless and simpering. But I liked the style of the book - and I liked little Catherine and the narrator, who was the only one of them with the slightest bit of sense.
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Though, there seems to be a disturbing lack of the Thomas Hardy love. Every single list of these I've read, no one has read either of his books mentioned. Alas.
I also find Jane Eyre superior to Wuthering Heights, and I was very surprised when I read WH, like the above commenters, that it was supposed to be a great romance. I loathed Heathcliff and Catherine, not so much for themselves than the fact that they destroyed the lives of all the people around them, who, because they were relatively normal and couldn't understand The Great Passion, were characterized as hopeless and simpering. But I liked the style of the book - and I liked little Catherine and the narrator, who was the only one of them with the slightest bit of sense.
~Chresimos