Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules audiobook runs 2.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Mary -Louise Parker and Toby Wherry and others (about 2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 2.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day | 3 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 2 days |
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What our data says
- At 2.9 hours, it is shorter than 64% of the 2,835 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
104 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is an audiobook by Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff and Akhil Sharma: a 2.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Mary -Louise Parker, Toby Wherry and Akhil Sharma and others, released April 4, 2005, on the Classics (Literature) and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 2.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mary -Louise Parker, Toby Wherry, Akhil Sharma, David Sedaris, Cherry Jones
- Released
- April 4, 2005
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Essays & Anthologies, Comedy, Satire & Parody
- ISBN
- 9780743551663
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules audiobook?
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules runs 2.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2 hours.
Is the Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules audiobook free?
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Who narrates Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules?
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is narrated by Mary -Louise Parker, Toby Wherry, Akhil Sharma and David Sedaris and others.