After 150 years of steady sales, the romance between Heathcliff and Cathy has started flying off the shelves thanks to a generation of teenagers discovering the book through the Twilight saga – a trilogy of books by Stephanie Meyer, which have been turned into hugely popular films, staring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
One publisher even released a Twilight'd up edition of the book:
This burst right here? In the business we call this "marketing' :
I dunno how I feel. It's still one of my favorite books, so I'm glad more people are reading it. Still, I discovered Wuthering Heights in high school through Kate Bush, as one should.Those socks!
Somehow it seems the youths of today are being shortchanged. I mean, what if they never discover this?
It's like discovering Camus not by way of an explanatary burst on a Cure album, or learning about Buñuel not from the Pixies. We didn't even know how good we had it.
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Did you see that Genius stuck "Wuthering Heights" in my current playlist over on my sidebar? I now understand why.
I had never seen this alternative, later, somehow less creepy version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs
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