Classic Romance Collection  Volume I..., Emily Bronte
Classic Romance Collection  Volume I..., Emily Bronte
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Classic Romance Collection - Volume II - Wuthering Heights - A Farewell to Arms - The Great Gatsby - Unabridged

Author: Emily Brontë, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Sara Nichols, Joseph Wycoff, Kevin Theis

Unabridged: 27 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2024


Synopsis

The most romantic literary lovers in history: Heathcliff and Cathy. Frederic and Catherine. Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Now, all three of their classic stories are collected in one volume: the Classic Romance Collection - Volume II featuring Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." First, we head to the English moors for "Wuthering Heights," the tale of Heathcliff and Catherine; he, an orphan taken in by a kindly benefactor, she, a spirited country girl who loves Heathcliff, but aspires to a higher station. As family turmoil, jealousy and ambition drive the couple apart, the story becomes a tragic tale of love deferred. Truly one of the great romance novels of all time. Next, "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway's towering tale of love during wartime. Frederic Henry is an American medic serving in the Italian army during the First World War who meets and falls in love with an English nurse named Catherine Berkley. Catherine has lost her fiancé in battle and initially rebuffs Frederic's advances, but when he is wounded at the Italian front and sent to her hospital for treatment, their romance blossoms, leading the two lovers to attempt to flee the conflict and start a life together. Finally, we have F. Scott Fitzgerald's breathtaking novel of love, friendship and tragedy in 1920's New York, "The Great Gatsby," wherein we follow the story of Nick Carraway who befriends his mysterious neighbor, the enigmatic and fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby, a man determined to rekindle his romance with the now-married Daisy Buchanan, for whom he pines. Three classic novels of love, drama and romance collected together for the first time, these books are presented in their original and unabridged format.

About Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was born at Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, and just after the birth of her sister Anne, she moved with her family to Haworth, where she spent most of her life. Emily attended Cowan Bridge School, a Church of England clergymen's daughters' boarding school, but only for six months. Between 1830 and 1835, Emily taught at Miss Wooler's School at Roe Head, where her sister Charlotte also taught.

After serving as a governess in Halifax, Yorkshire, Emily accompanied her sisters Anne and Charlotte to Brussels, where they attended the Pensionnat Heger with the goal of improving their proficiency in French in order to start their own school. Their plans for their own school, however, foundered, and the sisters were reunited at Haworth in August 1845. When in the autumn of 1845 Charlotte accidentally discovered the manuscript of Emily's Gondal verses, she initiated the publication of a volume of poems by all three sisters, who as a clergyman's daughters thought it advisable to adopt the noms des plumes Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell.

A year after the publication by Thomas Cautley Newby, London, of Wuthering Heights, the eighteenth-century romance for which she is best known, Emily died of tuberculosis. She was just thirty years old but had already produced a romantic tragedy in novel form, written over the course of 1845-46, yet to be surpassed in the English language.


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AudiobooksNow review by Jack on 2025-02-11 00:26:03

Wow! What a wonderful trio of books! Highly, HIGHLY recommended!