loudlit.org: Literature for your eyes and ears
 

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Welcome to LoudLit.org.

LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio.

Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.

The Cask of Amontillado is now available!

A co-production of Verkaro.com and LoudLit.org, Rod Harrison and Quinn Armstrong perform a dramatization this Edgar Allan Poe masterpiece. Thanks to Gordon W. Draper for underwriting this production. Download  The Cask of Amontillado.

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Format and Technical Information

We have been struggling to find a way to consistently deliver audio while viewing web pages. Our latest attempt uses a mp3 player designed by Jereon Wijiering and uses the Flash Plug-in. It has worked consistently on all tested computers. Let us know how it works on yours.

Check Out Our mp3s

We are busy adding mp3 with embedded text to our collection. Some mp3 players (including 5th Generation iPod and iPod nano) allow you to listen and read on your player. On the iPods, repeatedly press the center button to get the "Lyrics" where the text of the work can be found. Distribute them freely, but please do not modify or sell them.

Creative Commons License
Most works on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs2.5 License.

 

Novels
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Heart of Darkness
The Secret Sharer
A Tale of Two Cities
Typee

Poetry
Alone
Annabel Lee
Corinna's Going A Maying
Danny Deever
A Description of a City Shower
A Dream Within a Dream
Eldorado
Goblin Market
The Highwayman
The Mower's Song
Ode to the West Wind
The Raven
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Selected Shakespearean Sonnets
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time

Children's
Briar Rose
Clever Gretel
The Emperor's New Clothes
King Grisly-beard
The Little Match Girl
Rapunzel
The Travelling Musicians

Historical
The Declaration of Independence
The Gettysburg Address

Short Stories
The Cask of Amontillado
The Gift of the Magi
The Happy Prince
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
The Open Window
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
To Build a Fire