How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer audiobook runs 13.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Davina Porter (about 9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 13.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 27 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 13.5 hours, it runs longer than 84% of the 5,224 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Davina Porter
Davina Porter narrates 183 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,579 hours in all.
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About as long, on the History & Culture shelf
456 History & Culture 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 to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer is an audiobook by Sarah Bakewell: a 13.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Davina Porter, released July 5, 2011, on the History & Culture shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Davina Porter
- Released
- July 5, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- History & Culture
- ISBN
- 9781455815500
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How long is the How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer audiobook?
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer runs 13.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9 hours.
Is the How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer audiobook free?
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Who narrates How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer?
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer is narrated by Davina Porter.
Is How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.