Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives audiobook runs 4.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Vance (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 4.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 75% of the 31,282 Biography & Memoir audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Simon Vance
Simon Vance narrates 793 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 8,393 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Biography & Memoir shelf
1,449 Biography & Memoir 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
Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives is an audiobook by Peter Ackroyd: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released July 1, 2005, on the Biography & Memoir shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- July 1, 2005
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781400171606
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives audiobook?
Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
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Who narrates Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives?
Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives is narrated by Simon Vance.