Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1): Audiobook
Book 1 of the Spartacus series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) audiobook runs 17.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Michael Praed (about 11.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 17.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 36 days |
| 1 hour / day | 18 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 17.8 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Michael Praed
Michael Praed narrates 8 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 106 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
758 Historical (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
Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) is book 1 of Ben Kane's Spartacus series: a 17.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Praed, released January 19, 2012, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 17.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael Praed
- Released
- January 19, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War
- Series
- Spartacus #1
- ISBN
- 9781448115969
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How long is the Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) audiobook?
Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) runs 17.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.8 hours.
Is the Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) audiobook free?
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Who narrates Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1)?
Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) is narrated by Michael Praed.
Is Spartacus: The Gladiator: The action-packed, rip-roaring historical epic from the Sunday Times bestseller (Spartacus 1) worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.8 hours, saving 5.9 hours.