Persuasion vs Wuthering Heights: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Romance, Fiction
Persuasion
Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, after the Napoleonic Wars come to an end. The story is set in 1814. The book itself is…
1 film adaptation
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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 Persuasion highest: Persuasion 4.2 · Wuthering Heights 3.9.
- Wuthering Heights has the widest readership — 2281673 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Persuasion | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (806887) | 3.9 (2281673) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (704) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (2) | 4.0 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (4760) | 4.0 (5966) |
| LiveLib | 4.2 (13688) | — |
Reception
| Persuasion | Wuthering Heights | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 806887 | 2281673 |
| Editions | 1236 | 2887 |
| Citations | 45 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 736032 | 1742187 |
| Reading it now | 36301 | 184443 |
| Written reviews | 44615 | 125002 |
| Wikipedia attention | 23421 | 139844 |
| Pages | 290 | 356 |