Readers get swept away by 'Wuthering Heights'

At the bookstore in Manhattan, several readers said they hardly cared if the film – starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi – was a triumph. — AP

If Wuthering Heights is a romance, it is the kind with more seething than swooning. Sure, its characters caress every hundred pages or so. But mostly it’s a lot of trudging across frosty moors, beating back mysterious illnesses and offloading anger on the next generation.

Yet the book, Emily Bronte’s only novel, is revealing its prickly charms to a new wave of readers.