Hi everyone I'm looking for a book exactly like my book almost Wuthering Heights with a character like Heathcliff, mistreated/rejected who takes revenge on generations, but also with a tragic love story around this character. It would be good if there were a lot of murder and dead characters which would add to the story's impact, but also a very psychological aspect with plot twists.
I have already read Rebecca and Jane Eyre (I really liked Rebecca) if you have others I will take it with pleasure
by mimi_0510
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Wuthering Heights isn’t a love story, fyi.
But you can find this in a ton of gothic fiction, thankfully, that’s basically the genre.
It’s a different flavor but if you really like revenge stories you might try The Count of Monte Cristo. The toxic might be all on his part though with the love story but it is indeed tragic.
I’ve read several other classic Gothic romances but I can’t think of another Gothic you haven’t mentioned where the main male lead is out for revenge, that’s of the older ones. (The hero and heroine are often a bit more straightforward and are more like Edgar and Isabella.) There are bound to be later additions to the genre but I don’t know them…
Following this to see if anyone else has recs for such books written a little later into the genre’s development.
How about **The Count of Monte Cristo** by *Alexandre Dumas*? While the protagonists are not really alike, I think you can draw a few parallels between Heathcliff and Edmond Dantes, not least their want for revenge.