Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights

Author: Emily Brontë

Narrator: Graham Scott, Linda Barrans, Blaise Doran, Jennie Litt, Sarah Bacaller, Justin Price, Tom Saer, Lillian Rachel, Alan Weyman, various narrators

Unabridged: 12 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2023

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Gothic


Synopsis

When it was first published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was considered highly controversial for its blunt portrayal of domestic abuse, alcoholism, and the dismissal of Christian values by some of its characters. Today, this gothic novel is considered one of the greatest in English literature.Generational conflict persists between two families living on properties in a remote area of Yorkshire—the Earnshaws and the Lintons. When the sinister and powerful Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by the Earnshaws, develops a passionate attachment to his step-sister Catherine, she chooses instead, for practical reasons, to marry the mild-mannered Edgar Linton, despite her affections for Heathcliff. When Catherine dies after giving birth to a daughter, the naturally surly Heathcliff becomes deeply embittered. He plans his vengeance on members of both families who he believes have wronged him.The action is told by Nelly Dean, who has spent a life in service to members of both families. The subsidiary speaker is Lockwood, a young man who becomes a tenant on Heathcliff’s property.

About Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë (1818–1848), sister of Anne and Charlotte, published only one novel in her career, Wuthering Heights. Though she died just one year after its publication and never knew of its success, the story of doomed love and revenge went on to earn its place among the masterpieces of English literature.

About Graham Scott

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and the Online Stage. Website: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

About Linda Barrans

Linda Barrans is a British narrator with a fondness for Jane Austen and Shakespeare. She wrote the Sam the Sheep books to make positive use of the time during COVID lockdown, and to give herself and her friend Cate Barratt a modern piece to record together.

About Jennie Litt

Jennie Litt is a voice actor, singer, performer, author, playwright, director, cabaret performance coach, and lyricist. Her audiobook repertoire includes thriller, literary fiction, drama, comedy, and medical, and in 2021-22 she narrated in American, BBC British, south London, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, German, and Israeli accents. No stranger to the recording booth, she has recorded two full-length CDs of original cabaret songs with her husband, pianist/composer David Alpher: Two Apples (2014) and Songs For Sapiosexuals (2019). Her works for the theater have been performed at the American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Circle Rep (NYC). She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, teenaged daughter, and dog.

About Sarah Bacaller

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.

About Justin Price

Armed with an English degree and a burning love for the scent of libraries and old books, Justin Price has spent the last few decades uncovering the essence of story. This diligence has instilled him with a knack for telling tales. Justin is a noir-themed storyteller with a penchant for comedy and dark thoughts. His devotion to creeping inside the minds of characters shows in his colorful narration. He lives in sunny Florida with his loving family, but longs for a haunted mansion somewhere dreary and destitute.

About Lillian Rachel

Lillian Rachel is a talented British voiceover artist who utilizes multiple accents in her work. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.


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