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- LibriVox is a site that offers free public domain audiobooks, with volunteers around the world recording classic novels in various languages.
- The site includes audiobook versions of famous English classic novels such as Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter."
- Users can listen to or download audiobooks immediately without any sign-up and can also participate as volunteers to read books themselves.
Hello. Today I would like to introduce you to a site where you can listen to famous English classics such as The Scarlet Letter and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer read by native speakers.
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
Posted on February 14, 2021 In 2020, LibriVox welcomed an amazing amount of new volunteers, one of the few positive side-effects of the Covid19 pandemic.
This site provides Free public domain audiobooks. In other words, novels that are out of copyright or free from copyright are read by volunteers around the world. By selecting the Listen item, you can listen to and download audiobook recordings without having to sign up.
The audiobooks here are mostly in English. However, if you click on the Language menu on the main webpage, you will find many files read in other languages such as French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
The works are mostly classical literary works from the early 1800s to the 1900s. In fact, most of the genres are children's picture books. In other countries, it seems that they use this site to tell their children stories when it is difficult to read books directly to them. By 2020, there were as many as 15,000 audiobooks uploaded to this site.
On the other hand, in the Read section, you can read the novel yourself
and upload the recording. The procedure is as follows:
First, the book coordinator selects a specific book. The meta coordinator posts a reading request on the forum, and volunteers can select the book they want from these items and apply. If approved, they can read it.
The audiobook below is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, which
you are most likely to know.
There are several versions, and there are basic forms like the one below, a dramatic version, a version that you have re-recorded in your own way, and various other versions to choose from. In addition, by clicking on the author's name, you can find his other novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ghost Stories, and Short Story Collections.
Another work I would like to introduce is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne)
It is a version read by a person named Cori Samuel. Probably no one has ever heard of this book, but it is a famous novel. It is a story about Hester Prynn who is branded with a scarlet letter for giving birth to a child without a father. The atmosphere in which the witch hunt took place in the extreme Puritan society somehow resembles the situation in the Joseon Dynasty. Anyway, who is the real father of Pearl, her daughter? And why is Dimsdale, the priest, so troubled by guilt? What can Hester's original husband, who suddenly appears, reveal? In short, it is a so-called sensational drama, but the writer, Hawthorne, unravels this story in an exciting way with his convoluted English sentences.
If you already know the plot, the novel will probably sound better to
your ears.
I hope this has been helpful. Thank you.
