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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847 · 116,538 words
5:36:48
at 380 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about twelve hours.

On the Yorkshire moors, a foundling of unknown origin is taken into a hard family and falls into a love so consuming it curdles into a decades-long campaign of revenge that outlives nearly everyone it touches. Brontë tells it in nested voices — a tenant, a housekeeper, the dead — so you're never quite sure who to trust. Not a romance so much as a haunting: about wanting a person more than your own soul, and what that wanting does to the children left behind.

34 chapters · begin at the beginning
Text: Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1847), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence