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Cover of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange: Audiobook

As an audiobook, A Clockwork Orange runs an estimated 5.7 hours (about 3.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

5.7est. listening hrs
4.0★68 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 5.7 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish A Clockwork Orange at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day12 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

What our data says

  • At 5.7 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 85% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 46% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a weekend-size listen at 5.7 hours (estimated).

About the book

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Clockwork Orange as an audiobook?

A Clockwork Orange runs about 5.7 hours, our estimate from its 192 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.8 hours.

Is A Clockwork Orange free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

When was A Clockwork Orange first published?

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was first published in 1962.