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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Audiobook

As an audiobook, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer runs an estimated 7.5 hours (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.5est. listening hrs
4.0★157 ratings
Historical Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 7.5 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day15 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

What our data says

  • At 7.5 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 79% of the historical fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 36% shorter than the average historical fiction audiobook (11.7 hrs across 210 titles in our dataset).

Computed from historical fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for historical fiction listeners who want a historical setting: a weekend-size listen at 7.5 hours (estimated).

About the book

Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly's cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school picnics into which sordid characters and violent incidents sometimes intruded. The tale powerfully appeals to both adult and young imaginations. Readers explore this memorable setting with a slyly humorous born storyteller as their guide. Tom and Huck Finn conceal themselves in the town cemetery, where they witness a grave robbery and a murder. Later, the boys, feeling unappreciated, hide out on a forested island while the townspeople conduct a frantic search and finally mourn them as dead.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an audiobook?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer runs about 7.5 hours, our estimate from its 253 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.

Is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

When was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer first published?

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain was first published in 1817.