Studying Wuthering Heights

The Complete Text and Revision Guide

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Roy McMillan

Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

Plug in and prepare for your A-Level English Literature examination with this comprehensive audio study guide to Wuthering Heights.

Includes the entire, unabridged audio narration of Wuthering Heights, as well as in-depth analysis on the text, covering the key areas of: Characters, Themes, Structure and Form, Genre and Historical Context - as well as detailed chapter summaries and key quotations for your exam.

This audio study guide covers the core assessment objectives of the A-Level syllabus. This will give students studying these texts a strong foundation from which they can build their understanding, engage with other critical commentary and draw connections to other literary texts.

Students will learn how to:

• Articulate informed and creative responses to the text through the exploration of themes and key ideas (AO1)
• Analyse writers' craft to uncover the ways in which writers convey meaning in the text (AO2)
• Appreciate the influence and significance of the contexts which shaped the writing and reception of the text (AO3)

©2020 Emily Brontë (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Fantastic read - excellent summaries - one of the best reader la on Audible

What a haunting story.

I’ve never read anything like it, and can only wonder how in the world Emily Brontë came up with.

The moments of dread and psychological torment are difficult to contain. I’m not sure I could ever read it again, but I couldn’t stop once I started.

Having finished her sister, Charlotte’s, <i>Jane Eyre</i> which was staggeringly beautiful, I am struck by Emily’s poetic, lyrical craftsmanship.

Never have I read a character more loathsome than Heathcliff, and yet his brokenness is reflective of that sense of rejection every human has felt at some point in life.

To that end, the brutality made me cringe at every thought I have ever mustered in my desperation to right some wrong. Moreover, what moved me the most was to witness how others reacted to their own dehumanization almost as though infected by it and showing varying degrees of their own suffering, vulnerability and emotional disease.

Therein lies the power and endurance of this story; it is a tale that everyone must read to gather insight, reflect upon and be conscientious when it comes to nursing slights both real and imagined.

<i>Wuthering Heights</i> is a treasure to with so many veins to be mined. Characters, world-building, culture, social morés, back story, background, sources of inspiration to write it and reader perspectives are only a few things that come to mind.

I’m sure that for as many people who have read it, each has their own personal takeaway or experience to contemplate.

It’s what extraordinary storytelling is all about.