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Advantages: A classic novel that impress peole with your variety of reading materials
Disadvantages: a slightly contrived ending

...I didn't read the classic Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte until just the other day. I had read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and fell in love at once with Mr Rochester, all of the Austen novels, falling in love at once with Mr Darcy and many of the other Victorian type novels, mostly for pleasure but with the mind that they would help for comparison of texts of the era when I sat the dreaded exam for the worst book I have ever read, Tess of the ...
...by a woman) Bronte released Wuthering Heights to the public. Originally beginning in the first person of a Mr Lockwood, a visitor to the area, we truly believe that a gentleman is taking us through his first impressions of Wuthering Heights and the strange gloominess that fills the household. This however soon changes, Mrs Dean, the housekeeper of the Grange, takes over the narration and tells our weary traveller of the happenings at the house before ... Read review

Advantages: A gothic fairytale, delightful, lots of coincidences, a classic.
Disadvantages: Could be seen as being straight-jacketed in its implied slur on foreigners

Jane Eyre is a young English girl whose life starts out on a doleful note. Her parents die, leaving her orphaned, she is carted off to live with her doting uncle and his resentful wife, who consequently teach her own spoilt offspring, of whom she has three, to remind Jane constantly that she ought to mind her p's and q's, especially when any of them in the household, tell her to. So Jane, who is brainwashed by her aunt into thinking she's a bad child, ...
...turn for the good when Jane is employed as a teenager to work with Mr Rochester who cares for a little French girl, Adèle. As the story unfolds, Jane is drawn to Mr Rochester, and she to him, and inbetween all of that, flares up occasional moments of haunted spookiness when Rochester deep dark secret slowly, but surely erupts like a volcanic pimple. First there is the strange employment of the drunken lady who keeps watch over something in a room ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting twists and turns in the plot
Disadvantages: Difficult to get into

...for the next chapter. Great Expectations: This was written in 1861, and has become known as one of the best novels of Dickens, with its strong characters such as Miss Havisham. Each installment of Great Expectations contained two chapters, and explains the crescendo's of climax found in the novel. Plot: THe story follows Pip from childhood to adulthood. At first, he is seen as an orphan, being brought up by his harsh sister and her gentle husband, ...
...deals with this. THoughts: Great Expectations is an interesting read in regards to atttitudes towards different classes, and for those who have interest in such history, there will no doubt be enjoyment from this novel. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book, and found it a captivating read, as you identify with the feelings of many characters; Joe's continuous kindness towards Pip, Pip's desire to be a genteman, and Miss Havisham's ... Read review

Advantages: Highy insightful, wonderfully written.
Disadvantages: A couple of parts less easy to absorb than others.

...simple must read becasue of the many themes still as relevent, and in many cases more so today. The one common issue addressed by the author is one that horrifies, bemuses, scares all of us: ageing. Wilde has created one of the most striking allegories of literature which cleverly displays the subtle workings of human growth: the fact that beauty is lost but wisdom is gained. Stop this and what happens? Whilst it is not a work in which the roundness ...
...upon, Wilde has given us delightful insight of humanity, and some very interesting views upon society: albeit coloured mostly by the cynacism of one charcter. A book that can be adored, and at the very least one that should be added to any readers collection. (Particulary for any artist.) ... Read review

Advantages: inspiring, humorous
Disadvantages: none

Pride and prejudice undoutedly is the most famous love story in enlish literature Because it points out the most fundamental function of courtship(or even all relationships), that is to find someone to complete ourselves, to become the ideal self through learning from out partners. Darcy and Lizzy are the two protagnists of this novel, before they meet each other, each of them has his weaknesses yet they do not realize by themselves. Basically, ...
...and expressing effectively because of his background, education and practical abilities, Lizzy has too much prejudice because of her brilliant conversing skills and so tend to judge too hastily. After their experiences with one another, both of them overcome their major phychological barriers form learning , Darcy becomes more easy-going and spirited, Lizzy becomes more patient and sophisticated. Their union represent a new ruling class--a combination ... Read review