The American Scholar: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The American Scholar runs 1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mark Bowen (about 0.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day | 1 day |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 1 hours, it is shorter than 91% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mark Bowen
Mark Bowen narrates 259 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,052 hours in all.
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- The Neville Goddard Collection: At Your Command, Awakened Imagination, Feeling Is The Secret, Freedom For All, I Know My Father and others
- The Complete Works of Homer (75 books): The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Homeric Hymns
About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
97 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2017 recording read by Phil Paonessa runs about the same length (1.1 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
The American Scholar is an audiobook by Ralph Waldo Emerson: a 1-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Bowen, released March 27, 2025, on the Essays & Anthologies and Lessons in Philosophy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Bowen
- Released
- March 27, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies, Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 4069828277205
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The American Scholar as an audiobook?
The American Scholar runs 1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.7 hours.
Is The American Scholar free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The American Scholar?
The American Scholar is narrated by Mark Bowen.