The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others runs 43.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jim Girard and Joe Phoenix and others (about 28.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 43.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 87 days |
| 1 hour / day | 44 days |
| 2 hours / day | 22 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 29 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 43.3 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 4,590 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
25 Essays & Anthologies 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 Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others is an audiobook by Henry van Dyke, Joseph Rudyard Kipling and Elizabeth Harrison: a 43.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Jim Girard, Joe Phoenix and Chris Dabbs and others, released December 4, 2023, on the Essays & Anthologies and Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 43.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jim Girard, Joe Phoenix, Chris Dabbs, Mark Bowen, Trevor O'hare, Abigail Reno
- Released
- December 4, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature)
- ISBN
- 4099994651028
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others as an audiobook?
The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others runs 43.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 28.9 hours.
Is The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others?
The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others is narrated by Jim Girard, Joe Phoenix, Chris Dabbs and Mark Bowen and others.
Is The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works): The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 28.9 hours, saving 14.4 hours.