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Before Versailles by Karleen Koen

Before Versailles: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Before Versailles audiobook runs 16 hours unabridged, narrated by Grover Gardner (about 10.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

16listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 16 hours of listening.

Days to finish Before Versailles at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day32 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

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What our data says

  • At 16 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

1,179 Historical (Fiction) 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

Before Versailles is an audiobook by Karleen Koen: a 16-hour unabridged recording, read by Grover Gardner, released June 28, 2011, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
16 hrs
Narrated by
Grover Gardner
Released
June 28, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)
ISBN
9781483072500

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Before Versailles audiobook?

Before Versailles runs 16 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.6 hours.

Is the Before Versailles audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Before Versailles?

Before Versailles is narrated by Grover Gardner.

Is Before Versailles worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.6 hours, saving 5.3 hours.