Heathcliff and Cathy

Man, I know it's been a long time - but I have never read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Nor have I seen the movie. So even I was surprised when I downloaded the recent miniseries and watched it on my laptop.

It is a sad sad sad story about a love that can only be described as unresolved, which destroyed all that were in contact with Heathcliff and Cathy. Emily Bronte wrote the novel in the 19th century and it was published in 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell.

I really liked it and I will read the novel as well. You feel for Cathy and Heathcliff - and wish you could just tell them what to do!! It is an amazing novel and Tom Hardy, who played Heathcliff in the miniseries, was just spectacular.

I came across a story on http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/aug/10/books.booksnews which talked about the greatest love story of all time and was surprised (but not astounded) to find Wuthering Heights at no. 1 position. Now I have a theory that the best love stories are always where they never get together (Gone with the Wind, Romeo and Juliet etc). So let's test this hypothesis with the list of top 20 novels given in the website. Now some novels I have not read so if a person who is reading this blog can please offer their own comments on the novels I don't know about, I'd be much obliged.

1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë, 1847 Don't get together
2 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, 1813 Get together
3 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, 1597 Don't get together
4 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, 1847 Get together
5 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936 Don't get together
6 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje, 1992 Don't get together
7 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier, 1938 Don't know, haven't read yet
8 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak, 1957 Don't get together
9 Lady Chatterley's Lover DH Lawrence, 1928 Don't know, haven't read yet
10 Far from The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy, 1874 Don't know, haven't read yet
11 = My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner, 1956 Get together
The African Queen CS Forester, 1935 Don't know, haven't read yet
13 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 Don't know, haven't read yet
14 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen, 1811 Get together
15 = The Way We Were Arthur Laurents, 1972 Don't know, haven't read yet
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, 1865 Don't know, haven't read yet
17 Frenchman's Creek Daphne du Maurier, 1942 Don't know, haven't read yet
18 Persuasion Jane Austen, 1818 Get together
19 Take a Girl Like You Kingsley Amis, 1960 Don't know, haven't read yet
20 Daniel Deronda George Eliot, 1876 Don't know, haven't read yet

I don't know about you, but I like happy endings.