Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Path to Ascendancy series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre audiobook runs 16.9 hours unabridged, narrated by John Banks (about 11.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.9 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 4,887 Epic Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Path to Ascendancy
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 45.7 hours in all.
More narrated by John Banks
John Banks narrates 63 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,170 hours in all.
About as long, on the Epic Fantasy shelf
679 Epic Fantasy 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
Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre is book 1 of Ian C. Esslemont's Path to Ascendancy series: a 16.9-hour unabridged recording, read by John Banks, released February 25, 2016, on the Epic Fantasy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Banks
- Released
- February 25, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Epic Fantasy
- Series
- Path to Ascendancy #1
- ISBN
- 9781473541436
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre audiobook?
Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre runs 16.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.2 hours.
Is the Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre audiobook free?
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Who narrates Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre?
Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre is narrated by John Banks.
Is Dancer's Lament: an ingenious and imaginative fantasy from a master of the genre worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.2 hours, saving 5.6 hours.