More BBC Classics, Emily Bronte
More BBC Classics, Emily Bronte
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More BBC Classics
Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Ethan Frome & Orlando

Author: Emily Brönte, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf

Series: BBC Classics

Narrator: Susan Jameson, Sean Baker, Joseph Ayre, Clare Corbett

Unabridged: 32 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2021

Synopsis

Unabridged readings of four fictional masterpieces

Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators. With over 32 hours of irresistible storytelling, tracked by chapter for ease of navigation, this is the perfect way to immerse yourself in these iconic works.

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild Yorkshire moors. Read by Susan Jameson.

Silas Marner
George Eliot's heart-warming tour de force about a lonely weaver's search for redemption and hope. Read by Sean Baker.

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's powerful, affecting novella about a poverty-stricken young man attempting to escape a loveless marriage. Read by Joseph Ayre.

Orlando
Virginia Woolf's comic biography of a time-travelling hero whose adventures through the centuries include transforming into a heroine... Read by Clare Corbett.

Credits:

Wuthering Heights
Read by Susan Jameson
Produced by Ross Burman
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 24 August 2019

Silas Marner
Read by Sean Baker
Produced by Martha Littlehailes
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019

Ethan Frome
Read by Joseph Ayre
Produced by Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

Orlando
Read by Clare Corbett
Produced by Simon Richardson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

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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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