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Wuthering Heights
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
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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- Teachy McTeach Face
- 17-09-16
Beautifully read
Always a wonderful text but Juliet Stevenson inhabits the characters with empathy and compassion, bringing the story to a level of connection which is unsurpassed.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-06-19
Beautifully read!
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.
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- Sandra Forde
- 19-06-16
Better than any film adaptation
What a fabulous narration of a brilliant book. I was mesmerised by the story and the wonderful voices of the characters from Juliette Stephenson. Having read Wuthering Heights in my youth, I thought I knew the novel, but this adaptation has shown me something new. I remember Heathcliffe as a romantic character, but my goodness he was cruel!
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-08-19
Absolutely blissful rendition of my favourite book
I have admired Juliet Stephenson 's acting talent for a long while, her ability to convey emotions being second to none. Since discovering this reading I have discovered Miss Stephenson has a huge talent as a storyteller. I feel that I more fully understand the books meaning courtesy of Juliet and returning to the book as an older reader, as does she herself. Immerse yourself do, you will not be disappointed.
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- MM
- 27-06-18
Brilliant!
Genius performed by a genius!
It is really quite amazing what a great actor can do for a story of this magnitude. Juliet Stevenson, a rare master of her craft, delivered an outstanding performance that brought each character to life. Characterisation, narrative and dialogue perfectly delineated and there is never any doubt as to who is speaking, male, female, accented. I was left with a sense of having lived with them. An amazing experience.
Obsession, revenge, manipulation and loss in epic proportions. The story is dark, powerful, tumultuous and at times profound. The reader is left to make up personal moral judgements between the destruction of two families that stretches over two generations. The rare literary genius is in the detail that usually falls victim to editing offers the reader a real treat. The author’s unique ability of creating unusual individuals, some of a sadistic nature, by depicting intricate characteristics and exaggerates them beyond what is normal makes this a drama more disturbing than any other. Emily Bronte was certainly beyond her years and time, mantling this book as one that should never be overlooked.
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- Lorna
- 31-03-20
So enjoyable
I expect many people like me think they know this book. In fact I was surprised to find I didn’t . What a great story and so well read. I have raved about it to all my friends. So much more to it than the films and TV adaptions show you. Glad I was born in the 20th century!
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- April Axton
- 08-08-18
Better to read than listen
I only managed to reach chapter 4 the narration is diabolical
not at all suited to any of the characters
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- anon
- 07-05-16
Fantastic story brought to life
Juliet Stevenson reads this story brilliantly. She brings the characters to life and kept me spellbound to the last word.
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- Bandanna
- 01-04-20
Great narration
Love Juliet Steven's narration, every character individual and identifiable, shared her amazement at how different the book seems, revisited in adulthood. Ace.
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- Fibre_Artist
- 15-05-19
Listened to for book group, but not really me
Juliet Stevenson was a great narrator as always but the story was not quite what I was expecting. I appreciate that the book is a Classic but I found it hard to empathise with any of the characters, and in fact disliked most of them. But then, on reflection, isn't that what writing is about? To emotionally engage your reader?
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