LoudLit.org - Free MP3 Audiobooks

LoudLit.org one of a handful of sites dedicated to making good literature available for free online. LoudLit’s distinction is that besides being able to download the audio version, you can read the text online in-sync with the text. The site says: “Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word.” I would think this would be a great feature for those learning English as a second language.

Below are the titles that are currently available on LoudLit.org

Novels

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Typee by Herman Melvile

Short Stories

• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper by Mark Twain
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
• The Open Window by Saki
• The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
• To Build a Fire by Jack London

Poetry

• Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
• Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
• Corinna’s Going A Maying by Robert Herrick
• Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
• A Description of a City Shower by Edgar Allen Poe
• A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
• Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe
• Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
• The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
• Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Selected Shakespearean Sonnets by William Shakespeare
• To the Virgins to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

Children’s

• Briar Rose by The Brothers Grimm
• Clever Gretel by The Brothers Grimm
• The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
• King Grisly-beard by The Brothers Grimm
• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
• Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm
• The Travelling Musicians by The Brothers Grimm

Historical

• The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson et. al
• The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln