Plato's Republic: Audiobook
Book 4 of the Books That Changed the World series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Plato's Republic audiobook runs 4.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Vance (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 4.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 53% of the 4,248 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Books That Changed the World
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 15 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 |
More narrated by Simon Vance
Simon Vance narrates 793 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 8,393 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf
274 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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
Plato's Republic is book 4 of Simon Blackburn's Books That Changed the World series: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released July 15, 2007, on the Lessons in Philosophy and Literature shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- July 15, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Lessons in Philosophy, Literature
- Series
- Books That Changed the World #4
- ISBN
- 9781400173907
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How long is the Plato's Republic audiobook?
Plato's Republic runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
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Who narrates Plato's Republic?
Plato's Republic is narrated by Simon Vance.