In the Penal Colony: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the In the Penal Colony audiobook runs 1.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Mark Bowen (about 0.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1.4 hours, it is shorter than 72% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mark Bowen
Mark Bowen narrates 259 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,052 hours in all.
- 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- Hermeticism Classic Collection: Corpus Hermeticum, The Kybalion, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, The Life and Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
- Vladimir Lenin collection: The State And Revolution, The Three Sources And Three Component Parts Of Marxism
- The Neville Goddard Collection: At Your Command, Awakened Imagination, Feeling Is The Secret, Freedom For All, I Know My Father and others
- The Complete Works of Homer (75 books): The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Homeric Hymns
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
198 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Art of War
- 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
- The Offshore Pirate
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- Antigone (Plumptre Translation)
Other recordings
- The 2021 recording read by Ghizela Rowe and Richard Mitchley runs 0.2 hours shorter (1.2 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
In the Penal Colony is an audiobook by Franz Kafka: a 1.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Bowen, released January 30, 2025, on the Classics (Literature) and Non-Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Bowen
- Released
- January 30, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 4069828110892
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the In the Penal Colony audiobook?
In the Penal Colony runs 1.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.9 hours.
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Who narrates In the Penal Colony?
In the Penal Colony is narrated by Mark Bowen.