Free Picture of Dorian Gray Audiobook

Yes, without any caveats. Oscar Wilde's novel first appeared in 1890 and was published in revised form in 1891, and its copyright expired long ago, so the full text sits in the public domain everywhere. Project Gutenberg hosts it free, and a text-to-speech app can read that exact text aloud without licensing anything from anyone.

That's a different situation than hunting down a pirated copy of a commercial recording, which is the usual shortcut people mean by “free audiobook.” Dorian Gray doesn't need it. The text is genuinely, permanently free to read aloud, in full.

It's a synthetic voice reading the real Gutenberg text, not a performed recording by a professional narrator. LoudReader's voices are natural offline voices, not the flat, robotic text-to-speech you might remember from years ago, and they get through Wilde's long, ornate sentences and dense paragraphs of dialogue without losing the thread. What it doesn't do is act the dialogue or land Lord Henry's epigrams the way a trained narrator would. It reads what's on the page, clearly and consistently.

You can check that for yourself before deciding anything. The Dorian Gray catalog page plays a short rendered sample of the opening right in your browser, no install required.

1. Play the sample on the Dorian Gray catalog page to hear the voice.
2. Download LoudReader from the App Store on your Mac or iPhone. Free, no account.
3. Open the built-in Gutenberg catalog and search for The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's already there, nothing to import.
4. Press play. The current sentence and word highlight as it reads, and your place saves automatically if you stop partway through a chapter.

If you already own a specific edition as an EPUB or PDF, you can import that instead, but with the book built into the catalog, most readers won't need to.

Fair preference. LibriVox has volunteer-read, human-narrated recordings of The Picture of Dorian Gray free as MP3 downloads. Reader quality varies since anyone can volunteer, but it's a real human performance, and LoudReader isn't trying to replace that. What it offers instead is instant access to any of the 70,000+ Gutenberg titles, not only the ones that happened to get a volunteer recording, plus word-by-word highlighting and offline playback on the same book.