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Wuthering Heights
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
Michael Kitchen gives us a masterclass in narration with this intelligent and believable performance of Emily Brontë's classic work. Listeners will be swept up in Heathcliff and Cathy's turbulent love affair, not to be released until long after the final word.
The only novel written by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights was originally published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and at first was thought to be the work of Emily's sister, Charlotte, the author of the classic Jane Eyre.
Wuthering Heights tells the tale of Heathcliff, a young orphaned gypsy boy, who is brought to the windswept moors of Yorkshire by Mr Earnshaw, the master of Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff's childhood there is riddled with bullying and humiliation, but the master's daughter, the precocious and untameable Cathy, becomes his ally, and a childhood fondness for one another grows to a great passion.
Following a misunderstanding, Heathcliff believes that Cathy has rejected him, and he leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return after three years have passed. When he returns, now mysteriously rich, he learns of Cathy's marriage to another and vows to focus his passionate nature on merciless revenge. Heathcliff's retribution proves so destructive that left in its wake are not only his enemies, but the very object of his obsession and, ultimately, himself.
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Critic reviews
"Search no further. A masterful vocal talent has found a masterpiece of world literature to perform.... Kitchen's intoxicatingly rich voice is the perfect medium for Bronte's romantic lyricism.... His interpretation is so precise and intelligent.... Michael Kitchen has given a long-awaited voice to a timeless classic." (AudioFile)
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- Kate32
- 11-05-15
Loved it.
Took me a long time to listen to it all but I loved every minute!
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- Chris Tiernan
- 21-12-18
What is love? Baby don’t haunt me...
First of all Emily Brontë is a beautiful angel who I wish could have lived another day.
Second, Michael Kitchen was utterly superb. A magnificent performance.
And finally, this story is simply breathtaking. A rollercoaster of emotion and beauty.
Would I recommend this audiobook? Yes I would. It’s a work of art. It’s a love story for those who find love exhausting and vicious.
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- Laura Bowater
- 05-09-15
Good Read
I felt it was initially hard to get into but gets better I have enjoyed it!
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- Hes
- 02-05-20
Fantastic
Have never read the story & bought this audiobook when it was on offer. Michael Kitchen is amazing & the story becomes alive under his narration. I enjoyed listening it was a joy.
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- Buyergalore
- 11-05-24
Superb narrator I could listen to Mr Kitchen read a shopping list all day!
Needless to say a true classic Timeless. Michael Kitchen’s narration is a very large cherry on an incredible cake/ice cream, whatever! A joy.
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- George
- 29-01-07
Spellbinding
Michael Kitchen brings this timeless classic to life in a way that really lets you enjoy the intensity of the relationships between the characters. Your involvement in the story is total.
If you have to study this work as part of educational studies (unfortunately the way most of us encounter it) this recording is the way to make it stick in your head and thoroughly enjoy it.
Once you start listening to it make sure you have the rest of the day at your disposal as you won't want to stop!
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- Lisa
- 01-02-14
Wuthering its withering!
Would you listen to Wuthering Heights again? Why?
Yes, Michael Kitchen brings this book to life, his intonation and diction are wonderful. The fact that he was the reader encouraged me to buy the audio book.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
It's a classic so there's no need to mess with anything. Hearing it read, rather than reading it myself, changed my attitude to the tragic romance! I had read it for my A level English Literature and got the whole romantic hero, rough diamond perception sad eh?
Which character – as performed by Michael Kitchen – was your favourite?
All of them!
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Changed my attitude about Cathy and Heathcliff as star-crossed lovers! But then I'm no longer a naive 17 year old English student at an all girl school!!
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- Kayleigh Pritchard
- 15-08-19
Great
Thoroughly enjoyed Bronte writing and the narration and will define will listen again and reccomend.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-08-19
classic
loved every minute, such a lovely love story , can't be beaten, today's love stories are more sex than love
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- NICK
- 20-08-22
Excruciating!
A masterly reading by Michael Kitchen.
I returned to Wuthering Heights because it is an icon, and as a sort of duty towards “The Canon” of English Literature; now, I doubt whether the novel really earns its place, except as a semi- Gothic curiosity.
This study of nastiness, primarily, of course, in Heathcliff, and generally in all the miserable inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, is hard work. (I got to the end by virtue of my reluctance to give up on a novel, once started). The supernatural element, to which, I believe, the novel may owe much of its general reputation, is actually very brief: the scrabbling and begging at the pane of the room reluctantly occupied at the Heights by the new tenant of Thrushcroft Grange.
Thereafter, we wallow. I am sure that the academics have a field day in construing the psychology of Heathcliff, and the xenophobic overtones regarding this person, a swarthy foundling of unknown provenance who was brought to the Heights and then wrought his pagan havoc. But does this story of unremitting malice make for a great novel? A memorable one, but great? I think not.
The plot gets particularly “clunky” towards the end, with the unexpected fate of Heathcliff and the equally unexpected love interest.
What I miss most is any redeeming Humanity. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, by contrast, has this in spades. But maybe this is a personal preference… .
So now I have Wuthering Heights “under my belt”. What more can I say?
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