Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Wuthering Heights, continued

I'm about half-way through Wuthering Heights. In the midst of moving and arranging my new place and taking on a full-time job, I haven't had as much time to read as I'd like, but I'm picking up pace again.

Wuthering Heights has a great story so far, but one of the characters, Joseph, is written with an accent so terribly thick that it is difficult to understand, and his passages are quite long, since he's a pompous, long-winded religious fanatic. I can't bear to skip over his parts, even though they're often explained later, so even when I've got time to read, some parts have been a struggle to get through.

I found a great resource today, though:

http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/josephspeech.htm

This site takes all of the major passages wherein Joseph speaks and follows them with an easy-to-read translation. I'll probably still try to figure out the strong Yorkshire accent, but I'm glad to have this to reference, and I wanted to pass it on to anybody else that might want to read this book. It really is wonderful so far!