Wuthering Heights [Recorded Books Edition]

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be...I am Heathcliff...." Catherine Earnshaw's passionate statement reveals the core of Emily Bronte's tempestuous literary masterpiece. Meeting as children, Catherine and Heathcliff begin a relationship that grows into obsession as family, class, and fate work against them as much as their own jealous natures.

Public Domain (P)1981 Recorded Books, Inc

Critic reviews

"Flo Gibson is consistently one of the best cassette readers at work." (The Washington Post)

I love this book

I've loved this book for so long that when I became a teacher I made it part of our curriculum just so I could enjoy it again.

compelling and intense; the narrator grew on me

Like the previous reviewer, I was a little taken aback by the crackly voiced, "old lady-sounding" narrator at first. However, as the book proceded, I decided that I actually liked this narrator. Her voice works b/c much of the narration is told by the housekeeper, Nellie. Moreover, she does a fine job with the voices of the younger women and the accents of the locals, both male and female.

It had been years since I'd picked up Wuthering Heights, and this audio book was a pleasure. The cast of tortured characters and senseless and unjust wrongs propels one to continue even while questioning why such people should matter. They simply do. It is a disturbing, haunting story, with--at long last--a happy ending of sorts.

A friend I look forward to revisiting

Wuthering Heights is a dear friend I always look forward to visiting. I enjoy this book more every time I listen or read it. It is a beautiful story that is wonderfully told. There are so many things that are enduring about this work one of which is life nor love is perfect but here is a portrait of how love and life intertwine can always be found in Wuthering Heights.

Always a classic!

I read this a few years ago, but since I've only read a million other books since then, I hardly recalled much of the story, so I decided to go back and listen to it this time. It's nothing like any book I've ever read before and I can't believe I'd forget any of it again now that I've read it twice. The narrator is excellent! I'd love to hear her read many other books!

Depressing

Any additional comments?

I rate this book somewhere between 2 and 3 stars, while it was well written, it didn't really seem to be about anything except all the trouble an evil man could pointlessly cause.

Audio brings this classic to life

Wuthering Heights was selected by our book club. I found wading through the heavy accents on the written page very cumbersome. After downloading this audio book, the characters came to life and I was able to appreciate how beautifully written this classic story is.

It's endurance

In this world of daily dysfunctional behavior with Donny Trump ruining our country, listening to this was endurance. Total endurance. Some enlightenment with manipulative people and their awful behavior. Also, why did everyone buy Isabella stay in the misery and dysfunction? Move on weirdos! Do something happy for once in your god forsaken lives. The reader is hard to listen to for me, especially after listening to the amazing reader of Emma I just enjoyed. So anyway, not my book but I feel more cultured having finally listened/read. I wouldn't buy this though. You can get audio book free on your library Hoopla site.

An Amazing Read

170 years after publication it is still the best study of innocence vs evil. Read it!

Drama and Evil

I'm still struggling with why people find this book so fascinating that they read it more than once. I can see how, 168 years ago, this book may have been so entrancing for those who read it. Maybe even 50 years ago, but it was more high drama, evilness of the villain, and naivety of the other characters than my taste can swallow. But for the sake of finishing the "classic" I pressed on.
At times it was difficult to discern one character from the next for the narrator didn't have a lot of differentiation in her voice.
All in all, I don't feel as though it weren't entertaining or interesting, I just feel it a bit over the top for my taste of romance and drama. I can now say I know the story, but I wouldn't seek out to read or listen to it again.

Wuthering Heights - Withering Me

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Ugh. Please change the narrator. I'm sorry. I tried. I really did. I READ this book eight years ago because it was my mother's favorite book when she was young and I wanted to find its appeal. Well, that reading didn't do it for me.

I thought I'd have a go with an audible version and see if that would help. THIS one certainly didn't. I made it through Chapter 14 and threw in the towel. I started to get used to her voice. I didn't mind the fact that it was a woman voicing a man's character. But JOSEPH. I know from my read of the book that his dialect was already difficult, but it was positively unintelligible in her voice because of the affectation she added to make him sound like a different character.

I am so frustrated by it that I cannot go on.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

See above.

Did Wuthering Heights inspire you to do anything?

Give up on listening.