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Sonnets

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - William Shakespeare
• Wikipedia - Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• LibriVox’s Sonnets Internet Archive page
• Bit Torrent of the entire collection
• Zip file of the entire book (78.9MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• Sonnets 1-10 - 00:11:16
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.3MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Sonnets 11-20 - 00:07:59
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 7.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.9MB]
  Read by: Tyler Breisacher
• Sonnets 21-30 - 00:11:27
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.5MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 6.3MB]
  Read by: Greg, Jean-Francois, Hugh, Oana, Adrian, Wilson, Mike
• Sonnets 31-40 - 00:10:42
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.7MB]
  Read by: Ben Lee
• Sonnets 41-50 - 00:11:54
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.3MB]
  Read by: Nikolle Doolin
• Sonnets 51-60 - 00:09:05
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 8.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.7MB]
  Read by: Chris Goringe
• Sonnets 61-70 - 00:12:10
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 11.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 6.4MB]
  Read by: Gord Mackenzie
• Sonnets 71-80 - 00:11:03
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.4MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Sonnets 81-90 - 00:06:54
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 6.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 5.0MB]
  Read by: Wedschild
• Sonnets 91-100 - 00:11:10
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.7MB]
  Read by: David Foss
• Sonnets 101-110 - 00:11:15
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 7.5MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Sonnets 111-120 - 00:10:36
  [mp3@64kbps - 5.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 10.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 6.6MB]
  Read by: Nikolle Doolin
• Sonnets 121-130 - 00:09:48
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 9.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 4.9MB]
  Read by: David Foss
• Sonnets 131-140 - 00:10:12
  [mp3@64kbps - 4.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 9.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.8MB]
  Read by: Brad Bush
• Sonnets 141-154 - 00:15:18
  [mp3@64kbps - 7.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 14.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 8.5MB]
  Read by: Colin, Kimberly, Devlin, Oana, Adrian, Hugh
• Remix: Sonnets 141-148 - 00:01:23
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 0.8MB]
  Mixed by: Hugh McGuire
• Sonnet 28: Outtake - 00:02:08
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Drunken Anthony with a case of the giggles!