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    Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights
    Audiobook13 hours

    Wuthering Heights

    Written by Emily Brontë

    Narrated by Janet McTeer and David Timson

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    When Mr Earnshaw brings a black-haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he little imagines the dramatic events which will follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity, and retribution: the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateAug 1, 2006
    ISBN9789629544669
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    Emily Brontë

    Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. The novel’s violence and passion shocked the Victorian public and led to the belief that it was written by a man. Although Emily died young (at the age of 30), her sole complete work is now considered a masterpiece of English literature.

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    • 5/5
      Seldom must a book have differed between its commonly held perception and its actuality, as much as Wuthering Heights. I came to this book from the camp of the former with some reservations about some doomed love affair on the Yorkshire moors. Perhaps the realisation of how far removed any preconceptions were added to the subsequent enjoyment of the story.

      Wuthering Heights is a story of revenge fed by obsession crossing over the generations of two families. And it is much more gothic than romantic. The plot rolls along with the drama rising and falling. Ok, few if any of the characters elicit much sympathy but they are complex and so well drawn that it is difficult not to be drawn into their isolated world or to anticipate what happens next.

      Ultimately it's all madness. Grave tampering madness.

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    • 5/5
      Wuthering Heights, a dark, powerful, gothic novel, set on the moors of Yorkshire, tells the story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by Catherine's father. Heathcliff is a dark and quiet boy, but full of passionate love and hate. As Cathy and Heatcliff grow, so does their love, but the choices made by both threathens to separate them forever. Heathcliff's enemies, including Catherine's older, abusive brother Hindley, are hated so deeply that even their children come to feel his wrath. His love for Cathy, however, goes beyond the grave....It's been many years since I've read Wuthering Heights and it still holds it's power over me. Beautiful and brooding, Wuthering Heights, remains my favorite novel.
    • 5/5
      A great classic.
    • 4/5
      Surprised me with how good it was. Wasn't looking forward to reading it at all!
    • 3/5
      You can't appreciate all the classics, right? Wuthering Heights didn't do much for me... Although the craftmenship is undeniable and its place in literary history firm and understandable, perhaps this is not enjoyable for most of the modern men... Or it could be just me.... Seeing the discrepancy in voting I hardly think so...
    • 5/5
      Too bad the dichotomy between the first and second aprts are so strong. If Brontë had stopped at Catherine's death, the novel would have been 5 stars fos sure!
    • 5/5
      There is something about this book that reaches me, something about the profound love that Cathy and Heathcliff feel for each other. Since reading it in college, I have seen every movie or TV miniseries adaptation I have come across.
    • 1/5
      I love classic literature, and finally decided to give this one a try. It was awful - such a terrible book! I couldn't even finish it. About halfway through I declared myself done with it. Clearly not all the Bronte sisters should have been writers.
    • 3/5
      300-odd pages of unpleasant people being hateful to each other.
    • 4/5
      An excellent novel, and I really enjoyed it! I highly recommend this book.
    • 3/5
      It's a good book but it's pretty depressing and during the second half I got a bit tired of most of the characters.
    • 2/5
      While most of the population is lead to believe that this is some sort of fantastical romance novel, I have to crush those thoughts by speaking the truth: this book is not romantic at all and centers around an emotionally detached stalkeresque man whose only desire in life is to prove that he is worth something and has control. I have found that generally, people who enjoyed this book also extremely enjoyed the Twight Saga (which makes a reference to this book) because, well, Edward and Heathcliff are both (excuse my language) asses who are completely controlling and care only for themselves. While the writing style of this book was indeed enjoyable, I detested the story itself.
    • 5/5
      A review.....still intriguing....still crazy after all these years.Don't forget the 1992 film adaptation (Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche)A perfect adjunct to this classical read.It gives an extraordinary vitality to Heathcliff and Cathy
    • 4/5
      Loved it, Heathcliff is a wonderful broken villain. Incredible the atmospheric analogies between the landscape and the characters - everything's dark, hopeless and obsessive. Only the ejaculations of Joseph are a real challenge for a non-native speaker.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the book as much as I enjoy a lot of 19th century literature but I can't say I warmed to the main characters Cathy and Heathcliff. I felt that they had no redeeming qualities whatsoever! The secondary characters are what made the book for me. I couldn't see the torid romance that everyone else describes.
    • 2/5
      I thought this book would be way better because of all the hype surrounding it. I thought it was rather impersonal, and the characters were never really explained. The story seemed to have no point. I did read this 5 years ago, so maybe I'd understand it better if I read it again.
    • 4/5
      One time I almost physically fought someone over whether the love in this book is something to emulate. (It's not!) Probably one of the best learning moments for me was when I tried to write a paper in college saying this book had a happy resolution, and my teacher took me aside and told me you don't have to write things that you don't believe in papers. Thank you, DK!
    • 2/5
      Alas, I don't think this one is for me. Third try, this time I got to page 70. Seems like a study on how people can manipulate each other. I don't have the energy to bear all the misery in what I've just read, let alone all 300 pages.
    • 5/5
      Since the moment I was forced to start reading this at school I fell in love with this book. I can open it at any page and feel instantly drawn into the story. The book falls open at my favourite passages, and is stuck together with tape because I have read it so often. This is not just a love story. it is a tale of a love that burns so deep it causes all sorts of horrors to occur in the name of it. The passion of Cathy and Heathcliff tarnishes everything around them until they are consumed by it. Her descriptive prowess allows the reader to picture vividly the wild moors, and the darkeened rooms of the house. You feel a chill when Lockwood is woken in the dead of night to a tap tap and the window, and you can almost forgive Heathcliff his cruelty when you see how it is born from Cathy's treatment of him. A book written with great passion and skill.
    • 5/5
      I'm a fan of classics, but not so much one of romance so I went into this book a little hesitant. I came out very pleasantly surprised though. This is an amazing book with both a complicated and fulfilling plot. My only grievance would be the names of the characters. Sometimes in the piece the similarity of the names would get confusing to the point where I would have to reread sections to clarify exactly which characters I was dealing with. Other than that, I loved this book! It's one of my new favorites.
    • 4/5
      Just re-read this book recently. Tougher than I remembered. Telling the story by way of third parties is really rather awkward, and at times distracting. Still, Heathcliff and Cathy are memorably romantic figures.
    • 4/5
      Emily Brontes Roman ist weltberühmt. Er schildert die unendliche Leidenschaft des jähzornigen heathcliffs zu seiner ziehschwester Catherine. Beide sind wilde Kinder und. Sich ebenbürtig. Als Catherine einen andren Mann heiratet, lässt heathcliff keine Möglichkeit aus, ihrer Familie zu schaden. Auch als Catherine längst verstorben ist, findet seine Rache und Unrast keine Ruhe. Der berühmte Roman ist zwar sehr leidenschaftlich, aber aus heutiger Sicht auch etwas kompliziert und antiquiert. Ich kannte ihn schon, daher konnte er mich nicht mehr so begeistern. Das Hörbuch ist ausgezeichnet gelesen.
    • 5/5
      I still consider this one of my favorite books, possibly of all time, and that just further solidifies with each reread. One of the easier 'classic' novels to read, at least in my opinion. Cathy Heathcliff are my model couple for crazy love, and then Cathy 2.0 Hareton are a prime example of opposites attracting. Ahhhh I seriously just love this dark, twisted little book, plain and simple.
    • 5/5
      Absolute stunner. The casting of Nellie Dean as the narrator was a stroke of genius by Brontë.
    • 1/5
      I found this 'classic' slow and distasteful. I could not identify with any of the characters and did not like a single one, except for possibly Mr. Lockwood, whom the story is being told to. The one redeeming quality was the death of the 'hero,' that his charges may have peace.
    • 5/5
      This is a truely great novel. It is like looking down a telescope at the story which is told and re-told through the eyes of different witnesses. Some of these witnesses have no sympathy at all for the central characters, Heathcliffe and Cathy. Their relationship is misunderstood and mismanaged in a web of family distrust, dislike and predjudice. I have read this book many times and I believe that it took several readings before I began to have any sympathy or understanding for Heathcliffe. At first reading he appears like a monster. The writing is superb. It draws you further and further into this bleak , dark world full of passion and sexual tension.. I must go and read it again!
    • 2/5
      I am so so behind on reading lately. I however just finished reading Wurthering Heights last week. I had never read it before and thought I should give it a go. I had a love/hate relationship with it until the end and then it was just a hate relationship. I was so happy to be doing reading it! Urgh! I hated everyone. Not once single character did I actually like. They were all just egotistic and annoying. Glad to be done with that one.....
    • 5/5
      I finished it. Didn't love it. I hated the characters. I can't imagine why readers are attracted to the love of Heathcliff and Catherine. I struggled throughout the whole novel with the desire to take both of their egotistical, self centered beings to the moor and put them out of their misery in the deepest bog I could find.Yet.... The struggle payed off. I was transported by the language and plot. The inevitable circular turn of events that reminds me of 100 Years of Solitude. The abhorrent character failings (even in the "good" Ms. Ellen Dean) only seem to point out the many faults each of us have, and that goodness/grace can overcome our inner demons as shown in the end of the book.It was worth the read, but I still can't help but detest the characters. Was that the point Emily?
    • 5/5
      Part of my ambition to read a classic every now and then. But this wasn't what I thought it would be. I expected a romantic novel, but was a bit surprised to see that it is not much of that at all. It is a story of mistreatment, vengeance and mistreatment again. And the central love theme itself is rather, well, morbid. But it is good book, and it is something of an achievement in itself to write an engaging story where most people really are quite awful. But the real protagonist here is really Nelly, the housekeeper. She is the axis that everything turns around, and she is also one of rather few loveable characters in the book. On the whole a strange but captivating reading experience.
    • 1/5
      Emily should have got out more. A twice told tale, very boring and well written. .