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The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics runs 16.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Balogun and Seroca Davis and others (about 11.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

16.8listening hrs
Poetrystore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 16.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day34 days
1 hour / day17 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 16.8 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 3,749 Poetry audiobooks in our catalog.

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: Penguin Classics is an audiobook by Geoffrey Chaucer: a 16.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Balogun, Seroca Davis and Jay Bernard and others, released September 26, 2019, on the Poetry shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
16.8 hrs
Narrated by
Michael Balogun, Seroca Davis, Jay Bernard, Daniel Weyman, Lesley Manville, Derek Jacobi
Released
September 26, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Poetry
ISBN
9780241421147

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics as an audiobook?

The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics runs 16.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.2 hours.

Is The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics?

The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics is narrated by Michael Balogun, Seroca Davis, Jay Bernard and Daniel Weyman and others.

Is The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.2 hours, saving 5.6 hours.