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Preface by John Cheever

Preface: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Preface audiobook runs 0.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Peter Gallagher and Ben Cheever and others (about 0.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

0.1listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 0.1 hours, it is shorter than 100% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

3 Literary Fiction 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

Preface is an audiobook by John Cheever: a 0.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Peter Gallagher, Ben Cheever and Meryl Streep, released September 22, 2009, on the Classics (Literature) and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
0.1 hrs
Narrated by
Peter Gallagher, Ben Cheever, Meryl Streep
Released
September 22, 2009
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature), Literary Fiction, Short Stories
ISBN
9780061968662

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Preface audiobook?

Preface runs 0.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.1 hours.

Is the Preface audiobook free?

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Who narrates Preface?

Preface is narrated by Peter Gallagher, Ben Cheever and Meryl Streep.