Wuth. Hts · Read by Ruth Golding · 14 h 49 min
Wuthering Heights, the audiobook that reads along
Ruth Golding’s LibriVox recording of the complete novel — matched to the text page by page in Chromatics. Press play and the page you see is the page you hear, at any speed from 1× to 2×. When the page ends, so does the audio.
Wuth. Hts · Grange Park · 1784
This page really plays.
The panel on the right is a page from Chapter XVI as the app renders it: Heathcliff in his red, the scene banner above, the audio controls below. The play button works — it plays exactly this page of the recording and stops where the page stops, which is what reading along means here.
With JavaScript off, you still get the page and the colors; the recording itself lives at LibriVox either way.
“May she wake in torment!” he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. “Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Wuth. Hts · The plain facts
What this is, plainly
The recording is Ruth Golding’s performance for LibriVox — a complete, unabridged reading by one of LibriVox’s most admired narrators, in the public domain like the novel itself. Audible sells several fine Wuthering Heights narrations, and if you want a celebrity cast, that is where to find one. This one is free, and it does something the others do not: it reads along with you. The text is on the page, every speaker in their own color, and the recording follows your place — not the other way round.
Wuthering Heights is one of the featured classics in Chromatics right now, which means the whole experience — colors, scene banner, audio — is free in full. If you keep losing track of who is speaking while you listen, the family tree untangles the cast once and for all.
Wuth. Hts · 34 chapters · 14 h 49 min
The chapters
Thirty-four chapters, 14 hours 49 minutes at 1×. At 1.5×, call it a long weekend on the moors.
Durations are the actual chapter files, to the second.
Fourteen hours of Ruth Golding, the text following along in color, free in full while the book is featured.
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