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The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and the Damned: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Beautiful and the Damned runs 14.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Don Hagen (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.7listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Beautiful and the Damned at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day30 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 14.7 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

319 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2024 recording read by The Bell and Geoffrey Giuliano runs 0.3 hours shorter (14.4 hours).
  • The 2022 recording read by The Copper Penny and Geoffrey Giuliano runs 1.7 hours shorter (13 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 Beautiful and the Damned is an audiobook by F. Scott Fitzgerald: a 14.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Don Hagen, released September 13, 2010, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.7 hrs
Narrated by
Don Hagen
Released
September 13, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781596596702

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Beautiful and the Damned as an audiobook?

The Beautiful and the Damned runs 14.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.

Is The Beautiful and the Damned free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Beautiful and the Damned?

The Beautiful and the Damned is narrated by Don Hagen.

Is The Beautiful and the Damned worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.