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The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories by O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe

The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories runs 3.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Katherine Fenton and John Chancer and others (about 2.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.7listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2012released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 3.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day8 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 3.7 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

286 Classics (Literature) 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

The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories is an audiobook by O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe and Louisa May Alcott: a 3.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Katherine Fenton, John Chancer and Geraint Wyn Davies and others, released June 1, 2012, on the Classics (Literature) and Essays & Anthologies shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.7 hrs
Narrated by
Katherine Fenton, John Chancer, Geraint Wyn Davies, Bronson Pinchot, Russ Holcomb, Patrick Fraley
Released
June 1, 2012
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature), Essays & Anthologies
ISBN
9781620640920

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories as an audiobook?

The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories runs 3.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.5 hours.

Is The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories?

The Best of America: Seven Classic Short Stories is narrated by Katherine Fenton, John Chancer, Geraint Wyn Davies and Bronson Pinchot and others.