Empires Fall: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Rake's Progress series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Empires Fall audiobook runs 6 hours unabridged, narrated by Michael Cordue (about 4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 6 hours, it is shorter than 73% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Rake's Progress
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 5.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 16.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saints and Sinners: Every Saint has a past, and every Sinner a future | 5.1 hrs |
| 2 | Empires Fall | 6 hrs |
| 3 | The Last Pilgrim | 5.7 hrs |
More narrated by Michael Cordue
Michael Cordue narrates 19 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 124 hours in all.
- Tales from the Tail: A Short Story Anthology of Equine Sports
- Saints and Sinners: Every Saint has a past, and every Sinner a future
- The Duke's Shadow : The Secret Chronicle of Guy De Valois
- Between the Pines: A Testament from Sobibor Death Camp, 1942-1943 and Survival Beyond
- Daddy' Girl: The trials, tribulations and triumphs of Alice Drummond
About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf
443 Action & Adventure (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
Empires Fall is book 2 of Ludo Stuart-Douglas's Rake's Progress series: a 6-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Cordue, released January 30, 2025, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael Cordue
- Released
- January 30, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Action & Adventure (Fiction)
- Series
- The Rake's Progress #2
- ISBN
- 9798347884544
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Empires Fall audiobook?
Empires Fall runs 6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4 hours.
Is the Empires Fall audiobook free?
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Who narrates Empires Fall?
Empires Fall is narrated by Michael Cordue.