Collideoscope

Posted by: David Bunch

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been named the world's greatest love story.

Almost all the entries in the top 20 choices of 2,000 readers are major works of English literature, with Jane Austen pipping Shakespeare as runner-up and Emily's sister Charlotte coming in fourth with Jane Eyre."It's really heartening to see how these stories, written so long ago, retain the power to captivate 21st century audiences," said Richard Kingsbury, channel head of UKTV Drama, which commissioned the study.

I read Wuthering Heights as "summer reading" before my senior year. It was actually pretty good, and I made it almost to the end before the "bogged down" feeling came-but I pressed on.