Free Picture of Dorian Gray Audiobook

The edition linked here has the preface followed by twenty chapters. Use that structure to identify the text instead of assuming every edition with the title is interchangeable. If your class or book group assigns a particular version, compare the contents and first page before you start.

A modern introduction, annotations or a recording can have separate terms from Wilde’s underlying text. Project Gutenberg’s permissions guidance limits its copyright determinations to the US. Check your country and the particular file; this page is not permission to reuse someone else’s audiobook.

Listen to the sample as a conversation. Can you follow which character is speaking without relying on a different performed voice for each one? Does the pacing give you enough space to understand a long sentence? Try a longer passage in the app if you want to hear how the voice handles irony and longer exchanges.

LoudReader’s synthetic speech follows the text, while a human narrator can make interpretive choices about irony and emphasis. If that interpretation is the main reason you want this novel in audio, sample a human recording available from your library or audiobook provider as well.

LoudReader is an iPhone and iPad app; its iPad build also runs on compatible Apple Silicon Macs.

1. Hear the Dorian Gray sample to try one synthetic voice.
2. Install LoudReader and search the in-app catalog for the novel by Oscar Wilde.
3. Download the ebook and any required voice resources. A catalog entry is not a preloaded book.
4. Open the text and start with the preface or first chapter. If you already have a permitted DRM-free EPUB of your chosen edition, import that instead.

Try every available voice for your first 8 hours of listening. Afterwards, keep a free English voice selection and unlimited book listening. No LoudReader account or word quota.

The voice page explains narrator choices. Playback speed control and the sleep timer are Premium features, rather than requirements for ordinary free listening.

Return to the beginning of the exchange rather than repeatedly replaying an isolated sentence. Dialogue moves between Dorian, Basil and Lord Henry; following the written speech tags can be more helpful than expecting the audio to assign a different actor to each.

Keep the same text edition if you alternate reading and listening. Runtime depends on that edition and the chosen voice or recording, so use chapter boundaries for your plan. Before a trip, check that the downloaded book and voice play without the connection you used to obtain them.