The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling runs 16.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Colin Mcphillamy and Toby Leonard Moore and others (about 11.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.8 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Colin Mcphillamy
Colin Mcphillamy narrates 7 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 76 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
293 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 Canterbury Tales: A Retelling is an audiobook by Peter Ackroyd and Geoffrey Chaucer: a 16.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Colin Mcphillamy, Toby Leonard Moore and Tim Gerard Reynolds and others, released September 30, 2011, on the Classics (Literature) and Poetry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Colin Mcphillamy, Toby Leonard Moore, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Bianca Amato, Ron Keith, Steven Crossley
- Released
- September 30, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature), Poetry
- ISBN
- 9781449843618
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling as an audiobook?
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling runs 16.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.2 hours.
Is The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling?
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling is narrated by Colin Mcphillamy, Toby Leonard Moore, Tim Gerard Reynolds and Bianca Amato and others.
Is The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.2 hours, saving 5.6 hours.