Free audiobook - Hard Times by Charles Dickens [Classics]

[ATDrake]

Tantor Audio are once again offering a free mp3 download of one of their audiobooks:

Hard Times by Charles Dickens, narrated by Simon Prebble, will be available for free until the end of the month, and you can get it by signing up for an account with them and going to the book's regular page here where you'll see a download link once logged in.

It's about 318 MB in size. No idea if it's abridged or not, but considering how wordy Dickens was and the fact that the regular thing only runs to 9 CDs (my audiobook of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita runs to 13 CDs unabridged, and I think he was a shorter writer, even allowing for translation condensation), I'd put my money on the former. Cover says it's a "Tantor Unabridged Classic". I wouldn't have thought a Dickens novel would all fit onto a mere 9 CDs, but life is full of surprises.

Also until the 31st, they are having a sale, with the coupon Aug11 where spending $40 will give you $80 worth of their audiobooks in MP3-CD and regular CD format, and the promo banner on their front page also says Free Shipping (for the US, presumably) and also 50% off additional purchases over the sale limit. You may possibly be able to stack the discounts with their 75% off Bargain Bin, if interested.

If you'd like an e-book copy of Hard Times to read along with, we have some very nice specially formatted illustrated editions in our very own Patricia Clark Memorial Library right here at MR: ePub, Mobi, LRF for Sony, IMP for whatever still uses that.

Enjoy!