Hey Everyone!!
Hope your October’s unfolding exceptionally!!
Although the month’s traditions include everything from eye-squinting treats to nail-biting feats, it’s its suspenseful elements we’ll haul with us into November when we’ll trail wealthy Englishman Lockwood up a grassland hillside to Wuthering Heights, both a remote farmhouse atop a grassy summit and the name of our mid-autumn reading.
Published in 1847 under pseudonym Ellis Bell (Emily Bronte), ‘Wuthering Heights’ follows the aforementioned Lockwood atop the windswept heights to visit his landlord Heathcliff. But once he enters the farmhouse, he finds a landlord who’s gentlemanly but unpolished, a mistress of the house who’s in her mid-teens, and a young man who’s a member of the family but acts like a servant.
Before long however, Lockwood becomes snowed-in during his visit, and while inside a spare room he’d been allotted for the evening, he’s visited by Catherine, a ghost who Heathcliff—after being awakened by Lockwood’s screaming— believes is real. Once Lockwood descends the hillside and returns to his residence nevertheless, he questions servant Nelly Dean about the house’s history who then takes him on a journey through love-affair and ill-timed death.
Now, throughout my literary years, I’ve heard many positives about this novel except had never picked it up until now.
Thereby, if you’d like to explore a world brimming with love, lust, and misconception (on the high-plains of all places) then head to your book-self or stop by your local library, snag ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte, and read it during November with me!!
Many thanks, folks, & we’ll ttys!!
Phil