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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:02 am by M. in ,    No comments
A new Wuthering Heights audiobook recently released by Random House Audio. The marketing seems a bit Twilight-influenced:
Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte
Read by Donada Peters
Unabridged Compact Disc
Published by Random House Audio

* Category: Fiction - Classics
* Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
* On Sale: November 17, 2009
* ISBN: 978-0-307-73653-6 (0-307-73653-9)


"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer

Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.
Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte's death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth century's most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactor's daughter, Catherine. Through Catherine's betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Incorporating elements of many genres—from gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegory—and transcending them all, Wuthering Heights is a mystifying and powerful tour de force.
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