The Sonnets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 2:28:50 running time and a link to listen.
The Sonnets, credited to William Shakespeare, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of the Sonnets by William Shakespeare. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets deals with such themes as love, time, death, immortality, lust, and sex. The poems follow but also depart from the Petrarchan tradition of sonnets written by a frustrated male lover to an unattainable idealized female beloved. Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to both male and female lovers: the androgynous "young man" and the alluring yet dangerously sexual "dark lady." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Sonnets
- Author credits: William Shakespeare
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 2:28:50
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- shakespeare
- sonnets
Track guide
- 01 - Sonnets 1-10 — 9:27
- 02 - Sonnets 11-20 — 9:56
- 03 - Sonnets 21-30 — 9:29
- 04 - Sonnets 31-40 — 10:06
- 05 - Sonnets 41-50 — 10:00
- 06 - Sonnets 51-60 — 10:00
- 07 - Sonnets 61-70 — 9:37
- 08 - Sonnets 71-80 — 9:44
- 09 - Sonnets 81-90 — 9:44
- 10 - Sonnets 91-100 — 9:46
- 11 - Sonnets 101-110 — 9:40
- 12 - Sonnets 111-120 — 9:28
- 13 - Sonnets 121-130 — 9:24
- 14 - Sonnets 131-140 — 9:37
- 15 - Sonnets 141-154 — 12:56
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