I've been on a quest for many years to top this book..any suggestions?
2006-11-07 00:17:56 · 13 answers · asked by pseudoname 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Dice Man by Luke Rhienhart
It will change your whole outlook on life
2006-11-07 00:20:53 · answer #1 · answered by Yeah yeah yeah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on what it is that attracts you to Wuthering Heights. The Scarlett Letter has the similar feeling of self loathing and thwarted emotions, Madam Bovary is full of repressed passion and longing, I think that Beloved by Toni Morrison although a very different kind of story has the same kind of wild edge to it where you feel on this knife edge between sanity and insanity and morality and immorality. Whilst Wide Sargasso Sea has a bit of all these things and whilst I don't think it has quite the same force as Wuthering Heights it is still definitely worth a read.
Hmm.. I've just read over what I've written - to be honest I'm not sure you can top Wuthering Heights but perhaps reading other books like the the ones above will help you uncover new things in Wuthering Heights that you've never noticed before and make you enjoy it even more.
2006-11-07 00:46:09 · answer #2 · answered by Eliza 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, you said you felt a question coming on!! Well, Wuthering Heights is certainly a fantastic classic and what amazes me is how Emily Bronte wrote so deeply without much life experience (that goes for her sis's too!) Have you given Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres) or Birdsong (Sebastian Faulkes) a go? These are both full of wit, emotion, tragedy and had me hooked from start to finish.
2006-11-07 00:22:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always preferred Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights...
and you can't beat a bit of Thomas Hardy - Tess of the Durbervilles and A Pair of Blue Eyes are graet
2006-11-07 01:39:17 · answer #4 · answered by toscamo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights is a fantastic book, and after reading it i was left in wonderment and a daze. However there are books which i would put on equal standing with it, but not better. They are:
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Northanger Abbey :Jane austen
2006-11-07 00:42:37 · answer #5 · answered by Black-Bard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tries Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier? It's much darker and much more passionate than Wuthering Heights.
2006-11-07 02:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by La 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a classic novel but it is not, I believe, the greatest novel of its time. Below are five novels from the Victorian Era that I believe are even stronger.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Middlemarch by George Eliot
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russia)
Madame Bovary by Flaubert (France)
2006-11-07 01:28:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sean W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a romantic love story? Well, tough to top it. Try renting the 1950s film version of Cyrano de Bergerac. There's a poignant, unforgettable love story in that league, as well as being genuine literature, just like the Bronte novel. (Have a box of tissues.)
2006-11-07 02:20:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No other should, they are different. But I think that Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy comes close. Or Return of the Native too.
2006-11-07 00:24:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK maybe a little biased as I'm named after it but it has to be Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier
2006-11-07 00:24:18 · answer #10 · answered by ebex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋