Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Jane is an outcast in her own home. Family cast her out, so she learns to survive relying on no one. 

Fate brings her to be governess for the little Adèle at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the dark brooding Mr Rochester. Souls entwine and secrets and misunderstandings threaten to pull apart those that were intended.

Fires, madness, untold histories, society expectations, loyalties and a certain inevitability rounds this classic up into its quiet, dark and final conclusion.

Heroines in literature will rise and fade. Jane Eyre will survive them all.

The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Jungle. Whites mistreating the natives. Nothing uncommon there! What is wrong with the white man?! 

Feeling of smothering from the jungle, growing hatred for the company of the narrator, the captain of the steamer.

Kurtz - the mysterious voice of Kurtz.

Highlighted almost the whole of the last chapter - humanity, love, darkness.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Cathy and Heathcliff - greatest love story ever told? Amazing work Emily Brontë - so dark and atmospheric. You could actually feel the hatred between the characters. A destructive love, the effect of which ripples down through to the next generation and kills almost everyone in its path. Ghosts, evil, madness(?), illness, death and the moors. Don't forget those moors - they seem like sirens tempting people to their death. 

Loved it. Can't believe someone so young wrote it and that she died before having the chance to write a second book! Both her and Charlotte write beautifully - Emily is more dark. Anne I have yet to encounter!! She is sitting patiently on my bookshelf calling for me to pick her up and let her enchant me.