- Who is it for?
- Ages 10–14
- How long is it?
- 32 min
- What does it include?
- Synced read-along and a quiz
- What does it cost?
- Premium access in Emma's Library
About this audiobook
A traveler named Lockwood hears the history of Wuthering Heights from housekeeper Nelly Dean. Mr. Earnshaw once brought home the orphan Heathcliff, whom daughter Catherine loved and son Hindley degraded. Catherine chose to marry the gentle, wealthy Edgar Linton while declaring that Heathcliff was part of her own being. Heathcliff disappeared, returned rich, and set out to possess both families: he married and mistreated Edgar's sister Isabella, took Wuthering Heights from Hindley, and after Catherine's death raised the next generation inside his revenge. He forced young Cathy Linton to marry his sickly son so he could seize Thrushcross Grange, while keeping Hindley's son Hareton uneducated and dependent. Yet Cathy and Hareton slowly choose patience, learning, and affection over the roles inherited for them. As they plan a life together, Heathcliff loses the will to continue his revenge and dies haunted by Catherine. The houses pass to the young people who break the pattern.
Why it's worth a listen
A foundling named Heathcliff and wild Catherine Earnshaw grow up as inseparable as the Yorkshire moors, but class, pride, and cruelty turn their bond into a wound that passes to their children. Often mistaken for a simple romance, Emily Brontë's fierce novel is really a weather system of abuse and revenge — and a second-generation story about the difficult work of ending it.
What listeners will learn
Subjects: literature, storytelling, historical imagination.
- character
- setting
- conflict
- choice
- consequence
- theme
- retelling
- wuthering
- heights
- classic
Questions for after listening
- Retell the central conflict in order.
- Name one important choice and what happened because of it.
- How did the setting or tradition shape the story?
A question to keep
Can love remain love when possession, humiliation, and revenge take its place?
Chapters
- The Stranger at the Window
- The Foundling of the Moors
- Two Paths in the Heather
- The Harvest of Spite
- The Reading Lesson
- A Question to Keep
Editorial review
Quality reviewed · 96/100 on . Certificate EL-C67F-0573 is bound to the exact narrated script.
The review checks factual care, audience fit, teaching quality, structure, tone and source honesty. Read the editorial standards.
Published 2026-07-14 · Updated
