A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? runs 18.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Expatriate (about 12.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 18.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 38 days |
| 1 hour / day | 19 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 13 days |
You'll finish in – by –
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What our data says
- At 18.8 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Expatriate
Expatriate narrates 63 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 285 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
224 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? is an audiobook by Nikolai Chernyshevsky: a 18.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Expatriate, released August 26, 2016, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 18.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Expatriate
- Released
- August 26, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature)
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? as an audiobook?
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? runs 18.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.5 hours.
Is A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done??
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? is narrated by Expatriate.
Is A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done? worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.5 hours, saving 6.3 hours.