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Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080704
Author:Patrick McGrath
book of a lifetime
To select the book of a lifetime is no easy task. Masterpieces clamour from all sides. My own shortlist would include Moby-Dick and Heart of Darkness, both watery tales, both dominated by men who are huge, flawed colossi. My book of a lifetime, however, is Wuthering Heights, in which another towering figure bestrides a wild place, and incarnates the elemental principle of storm. It confirms, too, the universal truth that in the absence of institutions, man is liberated from morality.
Heathcliff remains for me the most glorious creation of the novelistic imagination. He ...
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