What are some well-known books written in limited omniscient point of view?
Limited Omniscient: A third person narrator is OUTSIDE of the story being told. Omniscient narrator are “all knowing” of everyone’s thoughts and feelings in a story. Limited omniscient narrators are all-knowing of either one or a few characters in a story–not everyone. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is praised and celebrated for many reasons, including for its unique narrative style. It is told by Mr. Lockwood, the current tenant of Thrushcross Grange, who commissions his housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him the story of his neighbours at Wuthering Heights. He records her stories in his diary, which forms the great majority of the novel. While Nelly Dean and Lockwood are the principal narrators, there are brief interruptions by other characters, including Isabella, Zillah and Joseph. With this narrative style employed by Bronte in the novel, some special dangers and disadvantages inevitably emerge. The story is told often at second or third hand by Nelly, and her accuracy in recalling
