Wuth. Hts · Emily Brontë · 1847
Wuthering Heights
One house on the moor, one in the valley, and a foundling determined to own them both. The most passionate novel in English is also one of the most disorienting — two generations share names, and the story arrives second- and third-hand. In Chromatics, every speaker keeps one color from the first page to the last, the scene banner keeps the chain of narrators straight, and Ruth Golding’s recording reads along, page by page. Featured now, free in full.
Wuth. Hts · Lockwood · 1801
The night the window rattled
Lockwood, snowed in at the Heights, spends the night in a dead woman’s bed and dreams — or does not dream — that someone is at the window. Even here the colors are working: the tenant in his olive, and the voice outside in vermilion, a color you last saw attached to a living Catherine.
“Begone!” I shouted. “I’ll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years.”
“It is twenty years,” mourned the voice: “twenty years. I’ve been a waif for twenty years!”
Thereat began a feeble scratching outside, and the pile of books moved as if thrust forward.
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If untangling households is your idea of a good time, Crime and Punishment will let you graduate from two Catherines to four names per Russian. The whole catalog story is on the Project Gutenberg page.
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