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How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories by Rudyard Kipling

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories audiobook runs 4.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Virginia Mckenna (about 2.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4.1listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 4.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories at common listening paces
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30 min / day9 days
1 hour / day5 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 4.1 hours, it is shorter than 55% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

293 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

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories is an audiobook by Rudyard Kipling: a 4.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Virginia Mckenna, released June 1, 2018, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
4.1 hrs
Narrated by
Virginia Mckenna
Released
June 1, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781982705015

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories audiobook?

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories runs 4.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.7 hours.

Is the How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories audiobook free?

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Who narrates How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories?

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk & Other Wild Animal Stories is narrated by Virginia Mckenna.