Love for Love vs Wuthering Heights: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Drama, Fiction
Love for Love
“THE husbandman in vain renews his toil,”
Valentine, Sir Sampson's dissolute eldest son, finds himself at a standstill; the only way out of his financial difficulties is to give in to his father's pressure to renounce his right of inheritance. While this…
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Wuthering Heights
“1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.”
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons,…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Wuthering Heights highest: Wuthering Heights 3.9 · Love for Love 3.6.
- Love for Love is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 6 for Wuthering Heights.
- Wuthering Heights has the widest readership — 2281673 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Love for Love | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.2 (14) | 3.9 (2281673) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (4) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (5966) |
Reception
| Love for Love | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 14 | 2281673 |
| Editions | 118 | 2887 |
| Citations | 14 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 248 | 1742187 |
| Reading it now | — | 184443 |
| Written reviews | 14 | 125002 |
| Wikipedia attention | 376 | 139844 |
| Pages | 112 | 356 |