The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Middlemarch series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control runs 3.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Evelia Farias (about 2.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 3.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 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 3.7 hours, it is shorter than 90% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Evelia Farias
Evelia Farias narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 46 hours in all.
- Miss Brooke: A Masterpiece of Dangerous Idealism, Quiet Rebellion, and the Marriage Cage
- Waiting For Death: In a town of tangled secrets, youthful folly and suffocating duty threaten to unravel the most fragile of hearts.
- Sunset And Sunrise: The Brilliant Conclusion to a Masterpiece of Victorian Scandal, Sacrifice, and Redemption
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Escape the horrors of bondage in this vital Autobiography / Slave Narrative. A searing true story of a mother's impossible choices, fierce resistance, and an unbreakable quest for freedom.
- Carmilla: A chilling Gothic Horror classic of forbidden desire and ancient bloodlust. Uncover the hypnotic, seductive mystery of the world's first female vampire.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
364 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Elevation
- The Time Machine
- Our Souls at Night
- Red at the Bone
- Diary of an Oxygen Thief
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 Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control is book 5 of George Eliot's Middlemarch series: a 3.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Evelia Farias, released March 19, 2026, on the Literary Fiction and Historical (Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Evelia Farias
- Released
- March 19, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Historical (Fiction), Classics (Literature)
- Series
- Middlemarch #5
- ISBN
- 9798240038549
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How long is The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control as an audiobook?
The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control runs 3.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.5 hours.
Is The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control?
The Dead Hand: A Masterpiece of Victorian Ambition, Unspoken Desire, and a Dying Man's Devastating Control is narrated by Evelia Farias.