Free public-domain audiobook
Listen to Treasure Island as a free audiobook on iPhone
You can listen to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and ships out with a crew that turns out to be half pirate - led by the unforgettable, one-legged Long John Silver. Stevenson set the template for every pirate story since: the map, the black spot, the parrot, the buried gold. Its fast, clean adventure prose is a pleasure to hear.
Why Treasure Island is free to listen to
Treasure Island was published in 1883 and is public domain. Free EPUB editions, including illustrated ones, are easy to find.
Length: A short adventure novel, 34 brisk chapters.
How to listen to Treasure Island on iPhone
- Download a free public-domain EPUB of Treasure Island (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 Treasure Island suitable for younger listeners?
Treasure Island is a classic adventure that works well for older children and up, with brisk chapters and a clear hero in Jim Hawkins. The violence is adventure-story violence rather than graphic. Because the EPUB is free public domain, it is an easy, no-cost listen to share with a young reader.
Is the pirate dialect hard to follow as audio?
Treasure Island includes salty pirate speech, and Long John Silver’s dialect is written phonetically in places. A synthetic voice reads these literally, which is mostly characterful rather than confusing. Slowing the speed slightly during the heaviest dialect passages keeps everything clear.