The POW with an audiobook

A new Wuthering Heights audiobook:

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
by Emily Brontë
read by Carolyn Seymour
Blackstone Audiobooks
10 Tapes ISBN: 9781441704207
1 Playaway ISBN: 9781441727947
1 MP3CD ISBN: 9781441704245
11 CD ISBN: 9781441704214

13 hrs (est.), Published - 03/01/10

DESCRIPTION

Wuthering Heights is the sole novel of Emily Brontë, who died a year after its publication at the age of thirty. A tale of exceptional emotional and imaginative force, it is a halting vision of metaphysical passion in which nature and society, heaven and hell, and dynamic and passive forces are powerfully juxtaposed.
Wuthering Heights is the name of an old house, high up on the Yorkshire moors, occupied by the Earnshaw family. Events are set in motion by the arrival of Heathcliff, a child waif who has been living like a wild animal in the slums of Liverpool. Adopted by the kind Mr. Earnshaw, he is bullied and humiliated after Earnshaw’s death by the new master of the house, Hindley. But Heathcliff’s passionate and ferocious nature finds its completion in Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine.

And a fiction book which features plenty of references to Wuthering Heights:

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A Flavia de Luce Mystery
Written by Alan Bradley
Random House
* Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
* On Sale: March 9, 2010
* ISBN: 978-0-385-34231-5 (0-385-34231-4)

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths—separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.
Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?

The Winston-Salem Journal adds:

The village, of course, is populated with all sorts of entertainingly eccentric folks. There's the mad but observant woman who lives in Gibbet Wood, and the Misses Puddock, elderly sisters who run the tearoom and inflict their musical talents on every public gathering. A German pilot who was a POW during the war stays around because he has a passion for the Bronte sisters -- and maybe for one of Flavia's sisters. (Linda Brinson)

Categories: Audio-Radio, References, Wuthering Heights