《卖火柴的小女孩》英语读后感【合集20篇】

读了《卖火柴的小女孩》这篇文章，我不得不为小女孩的凄惨生活感到惋惜。

这篇文章主要讲了：在平安夜的晚上，小女孩的父亲让小女孩上街卖火柴。那晚天气非常的冷，身上只穿着一件十分单薄的衣裳的小女孩被冻得直发抖。当她点燃第一根火柴时，她眼前出现一个餐桌，她幻想着她在大口大口的吃烤鸭，可这个景象很快就消失了;当她点燃第二根火柴时，她幻想自己坐在暖炉旁，她把手伸到炉前烤了烤，一阵风吹来火柴被熄灭了，暖炉也不见了。当她点燃第三根火柴时，她死去的外祖母来看她来了，她乞求外祖母把她带走，外祖母答应了她，并告诉她她们要去一个很远的地方。当第二天早上人们发现她时她已经去了天堂。

我和小女孩相比简直就是一个天上，一个地下。此时此刻，我不得不为小女孩的凄惨生活感到惋惜，不得不为她的悲惨命运感到悲痛。

当无知的小男孩把小女孩的仅仅一双木鞋抢走时，我多想送给她一双保暖鞋;当小女孩幻想着自己在吃烤鸭时，我多想把我所有零食都给她;当小女孩看着别人家的小孩在圣诞树下许愿时，我多想把我所有的愿望都送给她。可是这些都是不可能的，因为小女孩已经不在了。不过，这世界上还有很多像小女孩这样的贫困儿童需要我们的援助之手，所以，我们要竭尽所能去帮助他们，要把这些贫困儿童带出困境。

当天空中的礼花又绽放时，我想这一定是为小女孩和她的外祖母绽放的吧!愿她们在天堂过得更好。

寒假,我读了高尔基的自传体小说《童年》，它给我的感触颇深。

它向我们艺术地展示了阿廖沙在黑暗社会追求光明的奋斗历程，还有十九世纪七十到八十年代的俄国社会风貌。3岁的时候，父亲病故，母亲就带阿廖沙回了娘家。可惜外公是个自私而又专横的小业主，但是资本主义俄国的发展打断了外公发财的好梦，从此破产以至于贫困潦倒。可怜的母亲改嫁之后，生病而死，十一岁的作者被外公残忍地赶出了家门，到社会上自谋生路……其实，阿廖沙的原型就是高尔基本人，高尔基借阿廖沙这个人物来描述自己的童年。高尔基用真实优美的文笔描述了自已苦难而令人难以置信童年.

我们现在丰衣足食，要什么有什么，又是父母的“掌上明珠”、“心肝宝贝”哪能和高尔基那悲惨的童年相提并论，年代的不同就是这差别，一个是天堂，一个是地狱；一个充满陽光，一个到处黑暗。我们现在的童年来之不易啊！童年充满着欢乐，童年到处是温暖，童年是值得回忆的相机，童年爱满心窝！而高尔基的童年除了一些教育和友谊，没有什么再值得回忆！

假如我们生活俄国沙皇时期又会怎么样？会认为那根本不是人生活的地方吗？我们不仅要珍惜眼前的幸福，而且要学会制造幸福。屠格涅夫说过：“屠格涅夫说过：“想要得到幸福，你首先要学会吃得起苦。”美好的生活必须有所付出，才会长久，有所争取，才会得到.

暑假里我去书店里买书，有一本书是《安徒生童话》，书中《卖火柴的小女孩》这个故事深深地吸引了我。故事是发生在丹麦一个寒冷的大年夜，卖火柴的小女孩在街上卖火柴。她又冷又饿，于是点燃了第一根火柴，出现了一个大火炉;她点燃了第二根火柴，出现了一只烤鹅;她点燃了第三根火柴，出现了一棵圣诞树;她点燃了第四根火柴，出现了慈祥的奶奶;她又把全部的火柴点燃了，但还是惨死在寒冷的大年夜。

读着读着，我的眼睛湿润了。卖火柴的小女孩太可怜了!大年夜全家人应该在家里围成一桌，坐在火炉边，吃着香喷喷的烤鹅，她却在大街上卖火柴。她亲爱的奶奶和妈妈已经离她而去了，家里只有一个凶狠的爸爸，她有家不能回。小女孩多想穿上自己喜欢的衣服，头上扎两个蝴蝶结，穿上暖暖的棉鞋。可是她太穷了，只能穿破旧的拖鞋。

卖火柴的小女孩太可怜了，和她比我太幸福了，我要珍惜现在幸福的时光。

暑假，我读了《伊索寓言》这部短篇故事集。翻开它，我感觉自我好像打开了一个充满智慧的魔袋，智慧之光从每一篇小故事里散发出来，充盈了我的书屋，也照亮了我的内心。

《伊索寓言》里讲的大部分是动物的故事，这些故事有的教导人善良、正直、知恩图报；有的告诫人不要骄傲、不要撒谎；有的提醒人做好事要看对象，以免上当受骗；有的告诉人要善于运用智慧战胜敌人；有的告诉人做事要遵循事物的规律、量力而行；有的则揭露强权者的残暴和蛮横无理。

在这些故事中，我最喜欢的是龟兔赛跑。虽然很多人都对这个故事耳熟能详，也明白其中的道理，但并不是所有人都能真正学到乌龟的精神。大部分人都是比别人聪明一点或是取得一点成绩就翘起尾巴，一不细心就成了那只骄傲自满的兔子，连我也是如此。重读这个故事，我更加明白戒骄傲的道理。骄傲是成功的大敌，只要有一点骄傲的情绪，就会与成功失之交臂。所以，我必须要戒掉身上的骄傲，并学习乌龟的毅力。即使我比别人笨一点儿也没关系，只要坚持不懈，始终向着目标努力，就必须能实现目标。

一本书能够经典名著，一定包含了超高的艺术造诣和透彻的人生道理。今天我读完了一本清朝作家钱彩写的岳飞传讲的是：

岳飞是我国历史上伟大的民族英雄、著名的军事将领。岳母为了激励岳飞忠君报国，在他的背上刺伤“精忠报国”四个字。他一生战功赫赫，但他最后却被昏君和奸臣残酷杀害了。

至今我们仍能体会到岳飞那气壮山河的爱国情怀。虽然岳飞的生命不能永恒，但是他的光辉业绩却会在人间流传……

这个故事告诉我们这样一句话：少年强则中国强，少年富则中国富，少年屹立与世界则中国屹立与世界。我们从小要好好学习，长大为祖国贡献自己的一份力量!

今天我读了一本书，叫《成语故事》，书中有很多个我们耳熟能详的成语小故事，其中《自相矛盾》这个故事 给我留下了深刻的印象。

这一课，讲的是一个楚国人，在推销矛和盾的时候，一时说他卖的盾坚固无比戳不破，一时又说卖的矛非常锋利戳无不破。由于说话绝对化，前后矛盾，被人一问：用你的矛攻你的盾会怎么样?结果不能自圆其说，陷入尴尬境地。

在日常生活中，有时候想事情或讲话不注意，也常常会自相矛盾，比如有时说妈妈对自己很好，放假时生活上无微不至的关心，吃得好、穿得好，玩得好，有时又说妈妈很坏，开学以后什么事都管得很严格，中午不睡觉要管、放学回家晚一些要管，作业没完成要管，越想越愤愤不平。

又如回老家乡下我很喜欢那里的青山绿水和小朋友，但又很害怕那里的凶恶的山蚊和可怕的狗;从以上的事例中可以看到：如冷静下来想到底对妈妈是爱还是恨?能把妈妈对自己的严格要求也看成是一种爱，就不会说妈妈坏;只要对乡下有深厚感情的话，山蚊和狗就并不可怕了，农村人世代相传都能生活下去，回去住几天有什么可怕?

矛盾存在生活中、学习中，随处可见，到处都有，我们要用正确的方法和思想去分析，去对待，无论做事说话，都要注意留有余地，不能自相矛盾，不要自己打自己的嘴巴，这样才不会被人笑话，才不会尴尬和出洋相。只有这样才能看清问题，清醒头脑，方向正确，步伐坚定向前进!

I read Snow White yesterday.It is an interesting story.Snow White is an lovely girl.She is very kind to people.But her mom died.Her new mom is a bad woman.She thinks Show White is more beautiful than her .So she wants to kill her.But she was saved by seven short boys.And they live a happy life together.From this story ，we can learn that kind people can be very lucky.The god may pray for them.But bad people must be killed by themselves.So we should learn from Snow White .We should be a kind person and help each other.

The view of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is my favorite novel, which impresses me for a long time. It describes a love story mainly between Elisabeth, who I like the best, and a rich and proud man, Darcy.

The story began with the arrival of a crowd of rich men who rent a house near the Bennet. In a ball, Elisabeth gave such a bad impression on Darcys first pride that she refused Darcys first proposal. Darcy was so surprised by Elisabeths refusal that he loved Elisabeth more deeply. And Elisabeths antipathy(厌恶，憎恨) made Darcy realize his shortcomings. He was not angry about Elisabeths censure, but also he changed his previous proud attitude. During Elisabeths travel in Darcys manor(庄园)。 Darcy was very nice to her uncle and aunt, different from previous proud attitude. When one of Elisabeths sisters ran away with Wickham, Darcy helped Elisabeth find her sister and prevent her sister from the loss of reputation, with nobody knowing that it was he who helped the Bennet. So many changes in Darcy eliminated(消除) Elisabeths prejudice. At last it end with their marriage.

Taking the daily life as its material, this story reflected the life and love in a conservative你(保守派) and blocking England town. It reflected the authors view about marriage that it is fault to marry for property, money and status and it is also foolish to take these elements into account. In fact Darcys pride manifested(证明) the gap (间隙，差距)between their statuses(地位)。 Since his pride existed, there is no ideal marriage between Elisabeth and Darcy. From the different attitudes from Darcys two proposals, it reflected the feminine(女性) pursuit of personality independence and right equality, which is a progressive(先进的) character from the image of Elisabeth.

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《小妇人》这本书主要讲的是：马奇一家有四个姐妹，他们的生活清贫，简单而又温馨。整本书描述了她们从懵懵懂懂的少女时代慢慢蜕变，长大，变得懂事了。本来姐妹们之间有许多的间隙，互相看不顺眼，大家天天吵吵闹闹的，一点儿也不和谐。但她们慢慢的懂得了互相之间谦让，礼貌。

我和我的妹妹本来年龄相差不大，各自都有自己的想法，不仅是玩不到一块去，还经常吵架。这本书让我和妹妹深有感触——我们也要学长大后的四姐妹，于是，我们决定和平相处，也要对对方礼貌和谦让。

渐渐的，我们的关系变好了，我也发现了她的“优点”，比如说，妹妹很会聊天，找话题，她跑步也很厉害，可以和我一起比赛跑步。而且，她还是一个游戏大王，玩游戏特别牛，她还很可爱，她还……

现在，我们在一起玩的很好，成了“连体人”。干什么都在一起，即使起了争执，也会互相商量，找到两个人都愿意的方案。记得那一天，我想出去玩，她想在家看电视，要是以前，我们早就为了这种小事吵起来了，但现在则不同，我们长大了，我们商量商量，我们去逛商场吧，这样，既不听我的，也不听她的。很公平。

读过《小妇人》这本书后，我真是感触良多。她不仅让我看到了好看的故事，还让我懂得了与妹妹怎么相处。

我很喜欢这本书。你也来看看吧，一定不会让你失望哟!

这几天，我看了一本名叫《中外哲理故事》的书。在这本书里，有许多有名气的人励志而又不怕困难的故事。但其中，让我印象最深的是《我还有一个苹果》的故事。

这个故事是说，在北欧的瑞典，有一位充满传奇色彩的老人，名叫斯坦利·库尔茨。他本是一名医生，但对沙漠探险情有独钟，曾多次深入沙漠探险。有一次，斯坦利·库尔茨试图穿越撒哈拉大沙漠，但不幸的是，他遭遇了一场铺天盖地的风暴。这场突如其来的风暴，瞬间使他一无所有：向导不见了，驼群不见了，水和食物都不见了。斯坦利恐惧极了。

绝望的那一刻，他下意识的把手伸进了口袋，竟意外的发现，口袋里还有一个苹果。斯坦利坚信自己手上的苹果，凭着还有一个苹果的信念和求生的意志，终于走出了撒哈拉大沙漠。

在我们成长的过程中，我们总会遇到各种各样的困境。在困境面前，我们一定要保持坚定的信念去坚持最初的自己，因为我们每个人的内心都隐藏着一颗“苹果”，鼓励我们从沮丧和消沉中走出来，走向美好的未来。

现在的中国还在慢慢的发展中，和其他一些国家还有一定的差距，而且还遇到了很多困难，但只要我们都怀有“苹果”的信念，总有一天会赶上的！

" Les Miserables " (1862) is representative works of Victor Hugo,as one of the most famous novels in the French literature.

The novel basic plot is Ran A Rang pitiful life history. He originally is one poor family background worker, because the income insufficient family member gets by, by one time stole the bread is arrested is put in prison. Passed 19 years firm prison and the bitter service life. The punishment completely after also has the larceny behavior, but benevolent bishop in the rice the sorrowful influence, the transformation is one shed oneself manner person. He uses an alias is Madland, works as the entrepreneur, and is pushed for mayor. But soon and further because exposed the status is arrested is put in prison, after escapes rescues the deceased female worker Fantins daughter Cosette match from one bastard hand special, went to Paris. Afterwards again unceasingly encountered polices pursuit. The Ran A Rang entire life fills is imprisoned the pain which the bitter service and drifts about destitute, this is the novel main clue.

" Les Miserables " is the work which one realism and the romanticism unifies, the very many chapters glitter the realism glory, such as , in 1832 Pariss street barricade war all wrote is quite real. But the romanticism technique quite was also obvious in the plot arrangement, writes the many extraordinary events. If Ran A rang lets lie down is lifted in the coffin the monastery, he rescues from the street barricade Marilius, all is strange, molds, environment description, symbolic and contrast technique aspect and so on utilization in the character image, also manifests the romanticism the characteristic.

《卖火柴的小女孩》这个故事，我已经看过无数遍了，这是我看过的故事中最感人的一个。

“圣诞节的前一天夜晚，天下着大雪，有个女孩在街上卖火柴。小女孩穿着妈妈的旧拖鞋，可过街时不小心弄丢了，她只好赤着脚在街上走，脚冻的又红又肿。整整一天，都没有人买过她的火柴。她在一座房子的拐角处坐了下来，雪花落在她的卷发上，美丽极了。当他擦亮第一根火柴时，刚想暖暖脚，火柴却无情地熄灭了。就这样，他又连续檫亮了两根，可火柴依然无情地熄灭了。当她檫亮的四根火柴时，无意中看见了去世己久的老祖母出现了，显的那么慈祥。小女孩怕祖母也不见了，急忙把剩下的火柴全檫着了，祖母把小女孩抱起来，搂在怀里，飞向了天国。第二天，人门在墙角看到一个冻死的小女孩，她的脸上充满了快乐的微笑。”

这个故事让我明白了一个道理：万事都要珍惜。是呀，现在我们的生活好过了，但却不知道珍惜。有的小朋友吃饭从来不吃干净;有的人从来不节约水电。记得有人说，要珍惜水资源，要不然的话最后一滴水将是人们的眼泪。可有一些人只知道水是用不尽的，就严重浪费水资源。我国的水用量是发达国家的10倍，这个数据实在是太惊人了!希望大家能通过这个故事懂得珍惜。

在头一回吟诗中，大伙儿都埋头写着诗，可是黛玉既不念叨也不泼墨，宝玉劝其快作，怎奈自己还要写，只催了几声，就理自己的去了，谁知黛玉早已胸有成竹，不紧不慢地写了出来，果然一鸣惊人。

虽说宝玉提醒黛玉是出于关心她，但是黛玉本来就有些傲气，很少见她弯腰低头，在众秭妹面前扮演着孤傲的角色，那就让这种“风格”延续下去吧，峭壁上一块嶙峋突兀的怪石，硬是凿成了和其它一样的石头，岂不太俗了?

刘姥姥也算是个倒霉的家伙，原以为来贾府可以捞它一把，可是被凤姐鸳鸯整得够呛。

就拿贾母宴请宾客来说吧，刁钻的鸳鸯跟凤姐串通一气，让刘姥姥在大家面前出尽洋相，这种打肿了脸充胖子的生活可不好过吧?

再后来，大家一起行令，刘姥姥她是乡下人，怎么会有这种出什么对什么的能耐呢?而鸳鸯还是咄咄逼人，又令刘姥姥成了大家的笑柄。

人活在世上一定要有尊严。

Over the course of this semester,I read a moving book:THE LITTLE PRINCE.It impressed me a lot,especially,the pure but deep emotion（love） between the characters such as the pilot and the little prince,the rose and the little prince,the fox and the little prince.The book remind me of the pure and nice emotion only found in childhood.

The main character our little prince live on a planet named B612 accompany with there volcanoes an a rose who falls in love with him but can not understand each other.Consequencely,he leave his planet and his endless travelling.During this period,he come across a diversity of people. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.Then he enter earth and found thousands of roses alike.The little prince discovers that his rose is not the only ,plenty of her kind are everywhere, but then he realizes that his rose is special because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen . Then he fall across the fox.She

teaches the prince It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

What impresses me the most is the fox’s words.love is a strange stuff.Sometimes we see it but can’t grasp it.Yet, true love may be, to some extent, invisible in surface but may last permanent.Apart from love, others as well.Indeed,sometimes what we consider right turn out to be wrong,what we consider real proves fictitious,what we confused may just turn out to be the truth.The path In searching for truth may long and time-consuming,we should harbour conviction,b will and high hope.No matter what barriade in front of us,we ought to be couragous and face up to the challenge.

这几天，我读了一本书，名字叫《红楼梦》。

这本书写的是贾宝玉和林黛玉爱情悲剧。

《红楼梦》是我国18 世纪中期出现的一部古典小说。它高度的艺术性，在我国及世界文学发展史上占有重要地位。它所反映的生活内容极为丰富，具有深刻的思想意义和高度的艺术成就，在我国及世界文学发展史上占有显著的地位。它以贾、史、王、薛四大家族的兴衰为背景，以贾宝玉和林黛玉的爱情悲剧为主线，着重描写贾家荣、宁二府由盛到衰的过程，揭露地主阶级贵族集团的荒淫腐败、互相倾轧，暴露出他们残酷剥削压迫劳动人民的罪恶，歌颂地主阶级中具有叛逆精神的青年和某些奴仆的反抗行为，广泛反映了当时的社会矛盾和阶级斗争，对封建礼教等地主阶级传统思想进行了批判。但也反映了作者为封建制度“补天”的幻想和某些虚无主义思想。

经过我的介绍，大家是不是更想看了呢?

On Sister Carrie Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue the spacious square or tall buildings. Far more different from other heroines Carrie was not a plain pure angel like Snow-white nor was she brave enough to be a heroine of revolutionist or even a reformer nor was she so clever as to be a successful career woman who start from scratch.

What attracted her most after her entering this huge metropolis was the incredible fineries fashion shoes smart handbags displaying in the shop windows the jewellerys shining brightly behind the glass. She dreamed that one day she could wear all of these jogging gracefully into the most luxurious hotel with focused sights of admiration. And this was not merely a dream. Because she had large eyes which can earn others’ sympathy even love. She had wonderful figure which can win others’ hearts. However anything she got anywhere she reached had not come from her ambition.

Things happened and then she accepted. That’s what she had just done ? just to accept willingly from the bottom of her heart. She was not at all an evil woman who would give anything for the fortune or fame. However she would give uo something for a better life when her instinct defeated her intellect.

That was Carrie a girl had her own desire a human being just like many others in the realistic world.There’s one sentence written in chapter VIII:” When this jangle of free-will instinct shall have been adjusted when perfect understanding has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely man will no longer vary.” However how many people can go that further.

《卖火柴的小女孩》这个故事讲的是一个小女孩的故事。在故事中，小女孩出去卖火柴，没有卖出一根。她又怕回家父亲打她，就站在雪地里。她冷，于是她划燃了一根火柴，立刻出现了一个火炉，她想去烤烤，可是火柴灭了，火炉也消失了。她又划燃一根火柴，又出现了一个桌子，桌子上摆满了饭菜，当她走到跟前，桌子也消失了。她又把所有火柴都划燃了，这次出现的是她已经死了的老祖母。她跟着老祖母去了天国，然后自己被冻死了。

读了这个童话故事，我很感动。我觉得这个小女孩既可怜又幸福，可怜的是她在这片雪地里不敢回家，幸福的是这个小女孩去了美丽的天国。我以后一定要向她学习，学习她的善良与坚强。

These days, I am reading foreign novels "the miseries of the world", it is a famous French writer Victor Hugo wrote a work. The book tells the story of good and evil, hypocritical and sad stories of the kind.

O male ran to caused by excessive poor and stole the bread in the shop, was closed the captivity of 19 years, 19 years in prison. This 19 years and let him turn over a new leaf, let the heart of the greater corrosion, he also became the evil. After prison, MiLiYi leader that moved his kind heart, let the misfortune to turn over a new leaf and heavy work. Later, he again use intelligence when the mountains, the mayor of the citys situation. But persons fate, he revealed to you. In his later years, he had other sons and daughters sacrifice happiness, the fate of the childrens marriage.

Reading this book, I realize the integrity of jean valjean, fang ding, the maternal love, cosette Seths misfortune and luckily, thenardier terminating, javerts hard and slow maroussi in spirit. Ive learned integrity, kindness, and cold and evil.

这几天，我在读外国名著《悲惨的世界》，它是法国著名作家雨果写的一部作品。书中讲述了正义与邪恶，虚伪与善良的悲惨故事。

公冉阿让曾因过度贫穷而偷了商店里的面包，被关了十九年的囚禁，十九年的牢狱生活。这十九年并让他改过自新，而让心灵受更大的腐蚀，他也变的得的凶恶。出狱后，米里艾教主那善良的心打动了他，让不幸改过自新，重活。后来，他又用的聪明才智当山上了市长，了城市的状况。可人的命运，他向大家透露了的。晚年，他又养女的命运而牺牲了的幸福，了儿女的婚姻。

读了这本书，我体会冉阿让的正直、芳丁那的母爱，珂塞特的不幸与万幸，德纳第的心狠手辣，沙威的冷酷和马洛斯保家卫国的精神。我明白了正直，善良，与冷酷，邪恶。

前些日子，我刚读了鲁迅先生的回忆性散文——《朝花夕拾》，这本书主要回忆了他小时候的故事。

开篇文章《狗猫鼠》种主要运用了比喻的修辞手法，里面的猫指的是暴虐者，鼠知的是遭受压迫的劳苦大众，则狗 指的是和猫争抢压迫权力的人，这些人在鲁迅先生的文章中受到了极大的贬斥;《阿长与〈山海经〉》中， 他回忆了长妈妈的朴实，以及对长妈妈深深的怀念;《二十四孝图》深刻地反映了封建孝道的残酷;《五猖会》讲述了鲁迅先生第一次看描绘的激动心情;《无常》中由对“活无常”刚正的描述，进而反面衬托现实的残酷;《从百草园到三味书屋》更加突出了作者对脱离儿童实际的私塾教育的厌恶……

在《朝花夕拾》这本书中，我最喜欢《阿长与〈山海经〉》这篇文章。长妈妈是鲁迅小时候家里请来的女佣人，也带过鲁迅，所以他们感情很深厚。阿长是一个很不幸而又热望一生平安的劳动妇女，她没有文化、粗俗、好事，而又心地善良、热心帮助孩子解决疑难。鲁迅先生通过对儿时往事的回忆，表达了对长妈妈这样一位劳动妇女深深的敬意。

《朝花夕拾》十分耐人寻味，它反映着封建社会的恶习，这些恶习都受到了鲁迅强烈的批判，让我们也不由得为那些人而感到悲哀。

现在，我们现实生活中的陋习还有很多，但我想我们一定要努力改变它，让我们的生活变得更美好。

hat a brave and kind girl!She is a rich familys princess,her father really love Alice ago,However,once her father had something wrong in the accident,so the teacher was cruelty to Alice,but I find that the Alice is very brave and outgoing,she never said someting scared or something bad,she just continue and grow,soon,a mircle was that Alice get a friend of her father,so she could get a good life and start a happy life again,yeah,Alice is a good princess,As a little princess,she didnt hate nobody even her teacher a terrible miss.At the moment,I just want to say that something you should insist,a good sentence,All road lead to the Rome,and Everything is possible,she can be a severnt from a princess,but after she insist,so she become a princess again,I like the girl-Alice

Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when Wuthering Heights received a second printing with an introduction by Emilys sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the GREat novels of English literature.

Even so, Wuthering Heights continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and GREat loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

The novel is told in the form of an extended FLASHback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

Wuthering Heights is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again.