Free public-domain audiobook
Listen to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a free audiobook on iPhone
You can listen to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll as a free audiobook on your iPhone. Because the book is in the public domain, you can download a free EPUB edition and have it read aloud with natural on-device voices - privately, offline, and without buying an audiobook.
Alice follows a waistcoated rabbit down a hole into a world of logic turned inside out - the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, a mad tea party, a card-deck queen. It is short, playful, and endlessly quotable. The nonsense rhymes and puns are the one thing to watch for when a voice reads them.
Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is free to listen to
First published in 1865, Alice is one of the most reproduced public-domain books in existence. Free EPUBs, often with the original Tenniel illustrations, are everywhere.
Length: A very short book - 12 chapters, an afternoon’s listen.
How to listen to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on iPhone
- Download a free public-domain EPUB of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks both offer one).
- Move the EPUB to your iPhone via AirDrop, iCloud Drive, email, or a direct download into Files.
- Open the EPUB in a reader app that reads text aloud, or use Apple's built-in Speak Screen to hear the open page.
- Choose a voice and press play. A reader that generates the voice on the device works offline, with nothing uploaded.
Questions & answers
Is Alice in Wonderland good to listen to, given all the wordplay?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is short and delightful to listen to, but its puns and nonsense poems are built on how words look and sound. A synthetic voice reads them literally, which can flatten a joke or two. For the poems especially, reading along with the text on screen while you listen catches the wordplay the ear alone might miss.
Is Alice in Wonderland suitable for children as an audiobook?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a children's classic and works well as a listen for younger readers, with short chapters and a gentle pace. The humour and occasional dark edges are mild. Because the public-domain EPUB is free, it is an easy, no-cost way to share the story aloud.