Wuthering Heights Audiobook is an easily downloadable version of Emily Bronte's brilliantly wrought masterpiece, "Wuthering Heights." Her only novel, this 19th-century British romance brings together the complex story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, their lives destined by Fate to be so intertwined that even death cannot separate them.
Part romance and part Gothic tale, the novel flows in layers from the pen of Bronte. Growing up on the Yorkshire moors, Bronte is accustomed to dark, cold and often desolate days in a natural environment far removed from the cheerful optimism that a sunny climate might bring.
From the first chapter when Mr. Lockwood writes in his journal about his initial visit to Wuthering Heights its supernatural encounters, to the final chapter that brings about the ultimate destinies of these two star-crossed lovers, with all the family clashes in between, "Wuthering Heights Audiobook" takes listeners on a ride through time and space filled with enough emotional highs and lows to satisfy the most demanding of literary critics.
As the twig is bent, so shall the twig grow.
In this particular case, the twig is Heathcliff, an orphaned servant boy Mr. Earnshaw brings home from his travels in faraway lands. A Moor, poor and with no roots or family to call his own, he finds himself cast in 19th-century England, in a family where he is ridiculed because of his low birth, in a land where social class observes lines so distinctively drawn there is no way to surmount them. Clashes among the social classes are as certain as the pain resulting from unrequited love, a love that transcends even Death itself.
Author Emily Bronte wrote, as did her sisters Ann and Charlotte, under a pseudonym. Women writers of their time faced harsh criticism from publishers because of their fair sex, so they chose to publish under the names Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell instead of using their own names. Nevertheless, each girl managed to write, become a published author and survive the test of time that is the true mark of a writer's skill and talent.
"Wuthering Heights" was Emily's only published novel. Most critics consider her the best of the three Bronte writers. She is considered one of the most influential, outstanding and highly respected of the Victorian novelists, ranking with Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackery and a handful of others.
This audiobook edition of Wuthering Heights was released in September, 2012 and is narrated by Emma Messenger in an edition that will hold listeners rapt for over 13 hours. Filled with rich description, deep psychological perceptions and insights into human nature and conflicts so compelling that it continues to influence today's books and movies, Bronte's masterpiece is one gripping story whose end you will regret having reached.
"This is probably my favorite book-ever. I personally hated Catherine Earnshaw as a human but loved her character. I don't agree with Heathcliffe or his actions but I loved him. He wasn't a hero; this story didn't have a hero, all of them villains or bystanders. The only people who showed him true kindess where Mr Earnshaw and Catherine and his adoptive father died and Catherine abandoned him practically. The world showed him no kindness. He kinda had a right to be mad and hate people since practically no one gave him dedicated love and they all feared him. He was set on revenge. It sickens me but it makes the story more exciting. I personally loved Joseph's rants and found them easy to read after the first one."
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Savyb3 (5 out of 5 stars)