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Girl with a Pearl Earring: Audiobook

The Girl with a Pearl Earring audiobook runs an estimated 8 hours (about 5.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8est. listening hrs
3.7★24 ratings
Historical Fictiongenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 8 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Girl with a Pearl Earring at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 8 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 73% of the historical fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 32% shorter than the average historical fiction audiobook (11.7 hrs across 210 titles in our dataset).

Computed from historical fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for historical fiction listeners who want a historical setting: a solid week of commutes at 8 hours (estimated).

About the book

An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. 17th-century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Girl with a Pearl Earring audiobook?

Girl with a Pearl Earring runs about 8 hours, our estimate from its 271 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.3 hours.

Can I listen to Girl with a Pearl Earring free?

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When was Girl with a Pearl Earring first published?

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier was first published in 1999.