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Anyone that read Wuthering Heights, I wanted to see the hype behind it and this is genuinely one of the most unreadable books I’ve read in a while. How does one understand such old dialect without having to search up what countless 1800’s phrases mean?
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Anonymous 5w

Sometimes I watch movie adaptations first and then it helps me to follow the storyline when I read it lol

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Anonymous 5w

it might help to read it w the audiobook

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Anonymous 5w

As an English major, my advice for books like those is to focus on what you CAN understand and let yourself be guided by that. Also if there’s footnotes/annotations, read them because they will help!

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Anonymous replying to -> haterzz 5w

Won’t that have the same dialect and prose though? I understand it’s 1800s lingo but I having to look up every single phrase is killing me

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

that’s smart, i’d hate to spoil it though

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

That’s fair, you could also try to find an annotated edition!

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