Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Patricia Routledge

Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

The passionate and tragic story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is one of the high points of 19th-century Romantic literature. In the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, and in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors of its setting, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with a disregard for convention and an instinct for poetry and the darkest depths of the human soul in torment.

Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Patricia Routledge Does Wuthering Heights Justice!

What does Patricia Routledge bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

No-one absolutely no-one does character voices like Patricia Routledge, her vocal range is like no other i have listened to. She brings the story to life, her voice is so animated and dramatic....she does not read....she performs. If you have hated every attempt hollywood has made to reproduce this great classic on the big screen.....Patricia Routledge's performance is as good as it gets.

The Best Performance

I own several versions of this story, but Mrs. Routledge’s is the best! I feel like I heard parts for the first time. I worried I would hear Hyacinth Bucket while listening, but she isn’t there at all! She did a wonderful job allowing us to feel each emotion of each character!

Wonderful narration. Questionable story.

Unsure as to why Wuthering Heights is the “must read” classic that it is. No doubt Emily Brontë is a magnificently gifted writer, and the characters are complex. However, I found the plot disjointed and on the whole...bland. There was not one character the reader could possibly have sympathy for or even root for, and for such a long novel there was little to no plot. On the whole I was disappointed in the story. Emily Bronte wrote very interesting characters but gave them almost nothing to do.

Magnificent Performance

Great narration for an indispensable classic. The characters are so vile and crooked that I had to listen in parts, the story is so intense. This is a reread for me, my first on paperback. The audio version provided more realism and discovery.

Gothic Romance — Well-Told and Well-Read

Those who misunderstand the word "romance" and come into this novel expecting to find a star-crossed story of unrequited love will be more than a little disappointed. Passion, yes. Emotion, for sure. But classical lovers, not so much.

The characters in this story move the reader not so much by the strength of their own character but by the tragic way they became who they are, and how wrongs done to them in past generations bleed into the future.

I don't read a lot of fiction but was impressed with what I think are unique aspects of how Emily Brontë tells this story. The use of multiple first-person narrators lends verisimilitude to the description of the events. There are 2 major and maybe 3-4 minor narrators. Oddly, the primary narrator, Nelly Dean, who is an observer adjacent to much of the story, might be the only admirable character in this odd tale.

It's fascinating to me to find that I don't have to love or admire the main characters, nor be sympathetic to their wants and needs, to find the story a good one. I don't believe Brontë tries to get me to identify with any of them. But she still makes me strongly feel ways about the story.

People complain about the reader (Patricia Routledge), but they're really complaining about the way certain characters are written. Joseph speaks with a Yorkshire accent that is written out phonetically in the book. Routledge reproduces this accent, which is undecipherable to the uninitiated. You can get enough words and guess by the way he speaks exactly what he is thinking. And it's no worse (better, perhaps) than sister Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", in which Adele often speaks in her native French — with no translation offered for the reader.

This book is well out of my comfort zone but I'm very happy to have read it. I'll likely read it again.

Wuthering Heights

I thouroughly enjoyed listening to Patricia Ruthledege narrate the Wuthering Heights. This is the first time I have listened to an audible book. Her narration helped me to mentally envison the story. I would be very intrusted in listening to other audible books, by Patricia Ruthledge or another narrator if they are as good as her.

A classic story classically read

A complex and brooding story that sets a high standard for storytelling. Engrossing and emotive and read by a masterful narrator. Anyone who loves classics will enjoy this performance.

Patricia Routledge is fantastic!

This novel was written 170 years ago but the story of human nature is still the same. Love and torment come together beautifully in Brontë's well deserved classic.

Patricia Routledge's performance is superb. You will have to remind yourself that all the voices are from one person. She is a rare talent. I thoroughly enjoyed this audio book.

Excellent narrative.

Patricia Routledge’s narrative of Wuthering Heights pulls you into the story and lets you visualize and the story unfolds. Thank you.

Great Narrator!

A gripping story. Routledge is one of the best audio book narrators I’ve ever heard! She brought out the emotions in the story and made it come alive!