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The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment runs 30 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Frederick Davidson (about 20 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

30listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 30 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment at common listening paces
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30 min / day60 days
1 hour / day30 days
2 hours / day15 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×20 days

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What our data says

  • At 30 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

106 Historical (Fiction) 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 Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment is an audiobook by Giovanni Boccaccio: a 30-hour unabridged recording, read by Frederick Davidson, released March 5, 2009, on the Historical (Fiction) and Classics (Literature) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
30 hrs
Narrated by
Frederick Davidson
Released
March 5, 2009
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781483077987

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment as an audiobook?

The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment runs 30 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 20 hours.

Is The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment?

The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment is narrated by Frederick Davidson.

Is The Decameron: or Ten Days’ Entertainment worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 20 hours, saving 10 hours.