Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography: Audiobook
Book 8 of the Books That Changed the World series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography audiobook runs 3.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Vance (about 2.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 3.5 hours, it is shorter than 89% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Books That Changed the World
This is book 8. Books 1 to 7 run 34.5 hours before it; books 1 to 8 run 38 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On the Wealth of Nations | 5.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Qur'an: A Biography | 5 hrs |
| 3 | Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography | 4.5 hrs |
| 4 | Plato's Republic | 4.5 hrs |
| 5 | Clausewitz's On War: A Biography | 5.5 hrs |
| 6 | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man | 3.5 hrs |
| 7 | The Bible: A Biography | 6 hrs |
| 8 | Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography | 3.5 hrs |
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Simon Vance narrates 793 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 8,393 hours in all.
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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
Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography is book 8 of Francis Wheen's Books That Changed the World series: a 3.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released December 5, 2007, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- December 5, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- Series
- Books That Changed the World #8
- ISBN
- 9781400173921
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How long is the Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography audiobook?
Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography runs 3.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.3 hours.
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Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography is narrated by Simon Vance.