The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Grand Classics Collection series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More runs 100.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Grand Classics Cast (about 67.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 100.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 202 days |
| 1 hour / day | 101 days |
| 2 hours / day | 51 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 68 days |
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What our data says
- At 100.7 hours, it runs longer than 100% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Grand Classics Collection
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 151.5 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf
3 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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.
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The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More is book 1 of Søren Kierkegaard's Grand Classics Collection series: a 100.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Grand Classics Cast, released May 24, 2026, on the Non-Fiction and Lessons in Philosophy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 100.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Grand Classics Cast
- Released
- May 24, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-Fiction, Lessons in Philosophy
- Series
- Grand Classics Collection #1
- ISBN
- 9780466559533
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How long is The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More as an audiobook?
The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More runs 100.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 67.1 hours.
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The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More is narrated by Grand Classics Cast.
Is The Definitive Philosophy Collection: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Republic by Plato, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Hume & More worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 67.1 hours, saving 33.6 hours.