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The wild and passionate tale of Cathy and Heathcliff's impossible love for each other and its phenomenal setting on the blasted Yorkshire moors has to be one of the best-known love affairs in literature.

When it was first published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was greeted with a fair degree of outrage, not only for the open description of desire and disaster but for the almost unheard of method of telling the story using unreliable witnesses whose tales and points of view open out from each other, leaving the audience to piece together the truth of the story.

Only such novels as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein had previously attempted to challenge the reader in this way, and it is only in the last century that the true genius of Emily Brontë's work has begun to be appreciated.

Prepare to be as swept up and buffeted by the extraordinary power of Brontë's storytelling as Cathy and Heathcliff are by the winds of Wuthering Heights.

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Juliet Stevenson has a different voice for every character, making this audiobook much more accessible than the text version. My friends who have read the book said they struggled with understand whose point of view and what time they were reading at certain points but I didn’t experience this at all with Stevenson. The voices represent the characters so well and I forgot it was just one woman doing them all, it felt like a whole cast. An absolute delight to listen to.

Beautifully read!

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Love Juliet Steven's narration, every character individual and identifiable, shared her amazement at how different the book seems, revisited in adulthood. Ace.

Great narration

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The novel is deservedly a classic, and the performance is fabulous.
there is an interesting editorial from the performer at the very end, where she speculates on the origin of heathcliff as perhaps being from Ireland, as abandoned foundling on the streets of Liverpool. This was an aspect that I had not considered before, given that the book is set in the late 18th and early 19th century. This fact however perhaps undermines the supposition that heathcliff was an abandoned Irish famine orphan, although it is true that there were many other Irish famines than just the Great Famine of the mid 19th century.
nonetheless it was an interesting idea.

fantastic book and performance

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One of the reasons I enjoy Audible books so much is that the experience of being read to, for me, brings the stories to life and this is especially true for this classic. I read this in book form many years ago and enjoyed it however, as Juliet Stevenson herself explains, hearing it read out loud definitely enhances the experience and created a new awareness of the story.

Great to revisit

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Juliet Stevenson reads this book with a complete passion that brings the characters to life.

Supreme quality narration

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