It's so romantic!

Please kill me now. The marketing people at HarperCollins know no shame. The sticker says 'Bella & Edward's favourite book' . Since I never made it beyond the first couple of chapters of Twilight, this information is new to me. I reckon some first-time readers of Wuthering Heights are in for a surprise...



The cover art, of course, is meant to recall that of the Twilight series, which is quite stirking, I have to admit. And the 'Love Never Dies' tagline, is taken from the posters for Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, another case of a Gothic novel being marketed as a love story (I'm still quite fond of it, though). Heathcliff is not an innocent love-sick puppy (he KILLS puppies, for God's sake) and this interpretation is actually made fun of in the novel itself - it's the mistake Isabella Linton (Bella?) made. Heathcliff: "She [Isabella] abandoned them [her family] under a delusion, picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character."
I just watched the recent TV version of Wuthering Heights starring Tom Hardy as Heathcliff who was fantastic in the role, i.e. quite nasty at times, although still not as cruel as in the novel. And yay for the Snape-hairdo, LOL.