Wuthering Heights

Name: Wuthering Heights
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily Brontë
ISBN: 9798875121623

Author: Emily Brontë

Narrator: Sara Nichols

Unabridged: 12 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: SoundCraft Audiobooks

Published: 03/26/2024

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

"Wuthering Heights" is author Emily Brontë's masterpiece, a haunting and disturbing romance novel with dark themes, a brooding and often cruel protagonist and a tragic, powerful love story.
An epic study of love, loss, revenge and obsession, "Wuthering Heights" is 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 and this story - one of the all-time classics of the genre - has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen and has become one of the most beloved novels of all time.
The first and only novel from Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights" is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

About Emily Brontë

Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was an English novelist and poet best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. She was a teacher for a short time but found it too stressful. Emily was a very shy woman who rarely left her home but to go for a short walk or attend church. She died from an illness thought to be tuberculosis. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Bronte, the author best known for her novel Jane Eyre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on January 19, 2019

This is my favourite book. I do not say that lightly - I've read quite a lot from all different genres - but this is my favourite book. Of all time. Ever. The ladies over at The Readventurer kindly allowed me to get my feelings of utter adoration for Wuthering Heights off my chest in their "Year of......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 17, 2024

"Hello, everyone. Welcome to chaos." -Emily Brontë upon publishing this book, probably Inside me, there are two wolves. (I am saying there are two wolves in order to reference the meme, but what would be more accurate is to say that inside of me there are two boring and nonviolent creatures. Like a p......more

Goodreads review by Larissa on October 30, 2007

Certain novels come to you with pre-packaged expectations. They just seem to be part of literature's collective unconscious, even if they are completely outside of your own cultural referents. I, for instance, who have no particular knowledge of--or great love for--romantic, Anglo-Gothic fiction, ca......more

Goodreads review by karen on June 19, 2018

"all i care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you"... if you don't know that quote, you're probably too young to be reading this and isn't it past your bedtime or shouldn't you be in school or something? but that quote, hyper-earnest cheese - that is romance. wuthering heights is someth......more

Goodreads review by Eliszard on January 15, 2009

Ah the classics. Everybody can read their own agenda in them. So, first a short plot guide for dinner conversations when one needs to fake acculturation, and then on to the critics’ view. A woman [1:] is in love with her non-blood brother [2:] but marries her neighbor [3:] whose sister [4:] marries......more