Self-Reliance: and Other Essays: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Self-Reliance: and Other Essays audiobook runs 1.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Phil Paonessa (about 0.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 1.4 hours, it is shorter than 79% of the 4,248 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Phil Paonessa
Phil Paonessa narrates 21 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 145 hours in all.
About as long, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf
193 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2025 recording read by Evan Schmitt runs 0.7 hours longer (2.1 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
Self-Reliance: and Other Essays is an audiobook by Ralph Waldo Emerson: a 1.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Phil Paonessa, released August 15, 2017, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Phil Paonessa
- Released
- August 15, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 9781666602012
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Self-Reliance: and Other Essays audiobook?
Self-Reliance: and Other Essays runs 1.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.9 hours.
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Who narrates Self-Reliance: and Other Essays?
Self-Reliance: and Other Essays is narrated by Phil Paonessa.