"'The tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky… seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.'"
"Forget all that silly symbolism when you studied it a school and rediscover this tale of an innocent 'foreigner in the world of the emotions, ignorant of their language but compelled to listen to it'."
"The daddy (or is that mummy?) of Dark British fiction. This is fantastic - a book of wild hate rather than dainty love. Heathcliff is a wild monster from the moors rather than the ponce you remember."
