This collection celebrates the lives and works of some of history's most influential female authors. Narrators Jude Mason, Chloe Dolandis, and Tyra Kennedy expertly voice a wide range of poetry and prose. Included in the collection are intimate portraits of the women themselves, with personal stories about who they were, when they wrote, and why. The content is compelling, and... Read More

We all knew Catherine and Heathcliff indulged in more than smoldering glances. Here at last are the missing details. Blending her naughty bits with the actual text of the original WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Miller offers true erotica—passionate, elegant, and scintillating. Joy Pratt’s delicate English voice provides the perfect complement to the text, sounding like she’d be equally at... Read More

Emily Brontë's sorrowful story of doomed romance between two childhood friends finds its voice in Anne Flosnik’s narration. The diverse range of characters in this classic could present a difficult challenge for a sole narrator, but Flosnik conquers it with alacrity and enthusiasm. She masterfully alters her voice for each character and maintains keen attention to the varied... Read More

A través de otra espectacular producción de FonoLibro disfrutamos del clásico romance entre Heathcliff y Cathy, los habitantes de Cumbres borrascosas. La versión es dramatizada por un gran elenco de artistas. Los dos protagonistas son Zully Montero como Cathy y Antonio Miguel Suárez como Heathcliff. El narrador con voz fuerte y segura es Manolo Coego. También los acompañan... Read More

Slamming doors. Jangling of keys. The whispery, husky voice of a man on his deathbed. The anguish of a selfish woman realizing her paramour has overheard her lack of faith. The sound effects of this production create a completely absorbing experience. Appropriately haunting pieces of music connect the episodes, and the ensemble cast is perfectly matched to deliver the... Read More

Brontë’s treasured tale of willfulness, passion, vengeance, and redemption has never shone more brightly than in this production read by Michael Page and Laural Merlington. Page, as the hapless tenant of Thrushcross Grange, and Merlington, as housekeeper Nellie Dean, together recount the story of Catherine and Heathcliff. Soulmates from childhood, their pride and tempers... Read More

Donada Peters gives a heroic performance as she reads Emily Brontë's cruel and emotional love story of Catherine Earnshaw and her life's love, Heathcliff. Peters's reading is so vivid the listener can almost see Heathcliff's sneer as he speaks with those he despises. Peters is able to make each character sound the part, whether reading Catherine's hysterical lines, Heathcliff's... Read More

Richard Pasco does a near-perfect job with this morbid classic of violent love on the moors of rural Britain. His characterizations are vivid, and his sense of the dramatic exquisite. Moreover, he handles the turgid Victorian atmosphere with considerable aplomb--giving us the overwrought gothic melodrama without ever falling into scenery chewing or bathos. Unfortunately, this... Read More

Emily Brontë's only novel has an unusual structure: It is narrated by two rather minor characters in the story. In this smartly abridged recording, Prunella Scales (of "Fawlty Towers" fame) gets the bulk of the narrative duties as Nelly Dean, the housekeeper. Scales's son, Samuel West, reads the parts of Mr. Lockwood, the tenant whose curiosity sets this haunting tale in... Read More

Passion, hate and pity abound in Brontë's dramatic story of Heathcliff and Catherine's tragic love on the untamed Yorkshire moors. British actress Freda Dowie reads with a measured pace yet captures the passion of this classic. While she's at her best with the female voices, she skillfully uses the lower register of her voice for the male characters. As usual, Naxos provides... Read More

This set contains the work of British and Irish poets who wrote from the sixteenth century to the end of WWI. Very long poems have been excluded although an occasional excerpt from a longer poem is included. This is a spectacular tapestry of genres, forms, styles, textures and tone. Although each volume covers a literary period, the poems are not arranged chronologically on... Read More

Search no further. A masterful vocal talent has found a masterpiece of world literature to perform. Michael Kitchen brilliantly portrays Nelly Dean, the novel's main storyteller, as she, in her clipped Yorkshire dialect, loquaciously divulges to a fascinated Mr. Lockwood the turbulent saga of three generations of Earnshaws and Lintons during their systematic torment by the... Read More

This audiobook offers a good introduction to Brontë’s romantic tale of the tormented relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy, two of the best known protagonists in nineteenth-century literature. Nadia May gives a spirited reading; she characterizes voices with enthusiasm but handles female voices more successfully than male ones. In all, May’s overall tone is so strident that... Read More