Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth audiobook runs 7.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.4 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 4,248 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
Jonathan Todd Ross narrates 486 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,300 hours in all.
About as long, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf
384 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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About this listen
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth is an audiobook by A.O. Scott: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Jonathan Todd Ross, released February 9, 2016, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Todd Ross
- Released
- February 9, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 9781501919008
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How long is the Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth audiobook?
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.
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Who narrates Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth?
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth is narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross.