Wuthering Heights
Two families on the Yorkshire moors destroy each other over two generations, driven by a foundling called Heathcliff. Nobody in it is entirely sympathetic, which is why it still unsettles people.
Things worth knowing
- Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis at thirty, the year after the three sisters got into print.
- A biography of 1883 describes her as a girl at the waterfall, half-reclining on a slab of stone, pushing tadpoles about with her hand and moralising on the strong and the weak.
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Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Chapter One 11 min
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2 Chapter Two 20 min
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3 Chapter Three 27 min
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4 Chapter Four 14 min
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5 Chapter Five 7 min
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6 Chapter Six 14 min
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7 Chapter Seven 22 min
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8 Chapter Eight 19 min
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9 Chapter Nine 33 min
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10 Chapter Ten, Part One 19 min
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11 Chapter Ten, Part Two 17 min
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12 Chapter Eleven 23 min
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13 Chapter Twelve 27 min
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14 Chapter Thirteen 24 min
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15 Chapter Fourteen 18 min
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16 Chapter Fifteen 17 min
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17 Chapter Sixteen 9 min
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18 Chapter Seventeen, Part One 19 min
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19 Chapter Seventeen, Part Two 19 min
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20 Chapter Eighteen 20 min
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21 Chapter Nineteen 9 min
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22 Chapter Twenty 12 min
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23 Chapter Twenty-One, Part One 18 min
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24 Chapter Twenty-One, Part Two 17 min
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25 Chapter Twenty-Two 13 min
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26 Chapter Twenty-Three 16 min
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27 Chapter Twenty-Four 21 min
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28 Chapter Twenty-Five 8 min
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29 Chapter Twenty-Six 8 min
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30 Chapter Twenty-Seven 25 min
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31 Chapter Twenty-Eight 14 min
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32 Chapter Twenty-Nine 12 min
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33 Chapter Thirty 12 min
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34 Chapter Thirty-One 12 min
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35 Chapter Thirty-Two 23 min
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36 Chapter Thirty-Three 18 min
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37 Chapter Thirty-Four 24 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1847, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1848, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: Thro' the Wood, oil painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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