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Emily Brontë (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Emily Brontë by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson: 7 h 40 min in 20 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
About this recording
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of cancer. At the age of six she joined her three sisters briefly at the Clergy Daughters' School, where privations and abuse contributed to the deaths of two of them. Her elder sister, Charlotte, immortalized this terrible place in "Jane Eyre." In 1846 Emily Brontë, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, published a selection of her poetry. In 1847 appeared her dark, gothic novel, "Wuthering Heights," with its Byronic anti-hero, Heathcliff.
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.