Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy: Audiobook
Book 18 of the Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy audiobook runs 0.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Laura Greaves (about 0.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 0.3 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day | 1 day |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 0.3 hours, it is shorter than 93% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield
This is book 18. Books 1 to 17 run 9.9 hours before it; books 1 to 24 run 12.3 hours in all.
More narrated by Laura Greaves
Laura Greaves narrates 123 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 454 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
123 Classics (Literature) 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
Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy is book 18 of Katherine Mansfield's Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield series: a 0.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Laura Greaves, released February 22, 2026, on the Classics (Literature) and Coming of Age shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 0.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Laura Greaves
- Released
- February 22, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Coming of Age, Short Stories
- Series
- Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield #18
- ISBN
- 9798240108907
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How long is the Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy audiobook?
Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy runs 0.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.2 hours.
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Who narrates Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy?
Her First Ball: A Timeless Coming-of-Age Classic Short Story About Youth, First Love, and Fleeting Joy is narrated by Laura Greaves.