Is there an audiobook of Wuthering Heights?

Yes. Wuthering Heights has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Flo Gibson.

How long is the Wuthering Heights audiobook?

The Wuthering Heights audiobook runs 11 hr 15 min.

Is Wuthering Heights on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Wuthering Heights was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 18, 2026.

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Our score

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDDecember 2012

Genres

Fiction Classics Gothic

Themes

Obsession curdling into revengeClass and how it shapes who gets lovedCruelty passed from parents to childrenThe moors as a force shaping character

Wuthering Heights

Name: Wuthering Heights
Price: 2.99 USD
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Author: Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine's destructive bond on the Yorkshire moors through nested, unreliable narrators. It's less a romance than a gothic study of cruelty passed down through generations, for readers who want dark, difficult classics.

The Review

Our take

Reading this book feels like being told a story secondhand by someone who has their own stake in how it's told, which is exactly what's happening. Lockwood arrives at Thrushcross Grange knowing nothing, and the housekeeper Nelly Dean feeds him the whole history of the Earnshaws and the Lintons in installments, coloring it with her own judgments the entire way. That framing device does more work than it gets credit for. It keeps the reader one step removed from Heathcliff and Catherine, filtering their worst moments through a narrator who half-disapproves of them, which makes the story feel less like melodrama and more like an inquest into what happened at this house and why.

What surprised me most, going in expecting a love story, is how little tenderness there actually is on the page. Heathcliff isn't a brooding romantic hero so much as someone the book studies with real clarity as he curdles from an abused orphan into a man who visits that same abuse, deliberately and at length, on everyone in reach, including his own son. Catherine is just as unsparing a portrait: charismatic, self-destructive, willing to wreck two households to avoid choosing between what she wants and what she thinks she deserves. Brontë doesn't ask you to root for either of them. She asks you to watch what obsession does once it curdles into something closer to revenge.

The moors themselves are the book's clearest strength. Brontë writes weather and landscape as something almost sentient, storms that seem to answer the characters' moods rather than just backdrop them, and the house itself feels drafty and hostile in a way that matches the people living in it. That atmosphere is the reason the novel has stayed a template for gothic fiction ever since. The prose can be genuinely difficult, thick with regional dialect from the servant Joseph and a narrative structure that loops back on itself across two generations, and readers used to a cleaner timeline may need to slow down and track who's speaking to whom.

Why you should read

Readers who want gothic fiction over conventional romance
Fans of unreliable, layered narration
Anyone drawn to stories about inherited cruelty
Readers who enjoy landscape as a character in its own right

What to expect

A nested narrative told through two removed narrators
Dense, sometimes difficult prose with regional dialect
A story spanning two generations of the same families
Little tenderness, plenty of obsession and grievance

By the second half, when the story shifts to the children of the first generation working through the damage their parents left behind, the book becomes something closer to a ledger of consequences than a continuation of the romance. That's the real spine of the novel: not whether Heathcliff and Catherine end up together, but what happens to everyone standing near them when they don't.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of Wuthering Heights?: Yes. Wuthering Heights has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Flo Gibson.
Listen to Wuthering Heights free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the Wuthering Heights audiobook?: The Wuthering Heights audiobook runs 11 hr 15 min.
Is Wuthering Heights on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Wuthering Heights was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 18, 2026.

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What is Wuthering Heights about?: Reading this book feels like being told a story secondhand by someone who has their own stake in how it's told, which is exactly what's happening. Lockwood arrives at Thrushcross Grange knowing nothing, and the housekeeper Nelly Dean feeds him the whole history of the Earnshaws and the Lintons in…
Is Wuthering Heights worth reading?: We scored Wuthering Heights 4.1 out of 5. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine's destructive bond on the Yorkshire moors through nested, unreliable narrators. It's less a romance than a gothic study of cruelty passed down through generations, for readers who want dark, difficult…