Can a Lusty, Sex-Hungry Margot Robbie Save Literature’s Most Boring Novel*?

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The thing about Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is that it is a painfully boring slog. And it shouldn’t be! It is a novel about an orphan who claws his way up from nothing, a toxic romance that spans decades, insane revenge plots, ghostly hauntings, and generational curses! It should be a steamy, impossible-to-put-down bodice ripper that sends everyone to their bunks.

And that’s what Emerald Fennell wants her version of Wuthering Heights to be. That and incredibly disturbing, and Fennell knows from disturbing. See Saltburn and Promising Young Woman . She is not for everyone, but she is unique, and by that I mean: In her Wuthering Heights , a lusty Catherin

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