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Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

Hospital Sketches: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Hospital Sketches audiobook runs 3.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Aaron Elliott (about 2.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.1listening hrs
Military (History)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 3.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish Hospital Sketches at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day7 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 3.1 hours, it is shorter than 83% of the 4,743 Military (History) audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Aaron Elliott

Aaron Elliott narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 6 hours in all.

Other recordings

  • The 2025 recording read by Eloise Fairfax runs 0.3 hours shorter (2.8 hours).
  • The 2018 recording read by Josh Smith runs about the same length (3.1 hours).

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

Hospital Sketches is an audiobook by Louisa May Alcott: a 3.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Aaron Elliott, released January 1, 2016, on the Military (History) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.1 hrs
Narrated by
Aaron Elliott
Released
January 1, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Military (History)

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Hospital Sketches audiobook?

Hospital Sketches runs 3.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.1 hours.

Is the Hospital Sketches audiobook free?

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Who narrates Hospital Sketches?

Hospital Sketches is narrated by Aaron Elliott.