American Classics: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the American Classics audiobook runs 3.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Rene Aubergenois and Carmen De Lavallade and others (about 2.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 3.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 3.8 hours, it is shorter than 74% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing narrates 12 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 59 hours in all.
About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
167 Essays & Anthologies 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
American Classics is an audiobook by John Sayles, Edgar Allan Poe and Donald Barthelme: a 3.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Rene Aubergenois, Carmen De Lavallade and Malachy Mccourt and others, released April 1, 2010, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rene Aubergenois, Carmen De Lavallade, Malachy Mccourt, Freda Foh Shen, Christine Baranski, Jerry Stiller
- Released
- April 1, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 9781467663410
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the American Classics audiobook?
American Classics runs 3.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.5 hours.
Is the American Classics audiobook free?
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Who narrates American Classics?
American Classics is narrated by Rene Aubergenois, Carmen De Lavallade, Malachy Mccourt and Freda Foh Shen and others.