Wuthering Heights

Name: Wuthering Heights
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)
Author: Emily Bronte
ISBN: 9780307736543

Author: Emily Bronte

Narrator: Donada Peters

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 11/17/2009

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.

Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film Wuthering Heights, which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff

Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte's death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth century's most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactor's daughter, Catherine. Through Catherine's betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Incorporating elements of many genres—from gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegory—and transcending them all, Wuthering Heights is a mystifying and powerful tour de force.

Cover painting: Pteris Viscosa, 1996 © Philip Taaffe; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Steven Sloman.

About The Author

Emily Jane Brontë (1818 – 1848) was an English poet and novelist. After collaborating with her sisters on a collection of poems, which was published under her pseudonym Ellis Bell, Emily began work on Wuthering Heights. First published in 1847 as two volumes in a three volume set, Wuthering Heights was later republished as an independent novel in 1850 under Emily's real name.

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

Quotes

"It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality."
—Virginia Woolf