The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales runs 12.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Gillies and Malk Williams and others (about 8.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 12.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 12.4 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by James Gillies
James Gillies narrates 69 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 583 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
397 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 Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales is an audiobook by Charles Dickens: a 12.4-hour unabridged recording, read by James Gillies, Malk Williams and Liam Gerrard and others, released December 8, 2020, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Gillies, Malk Williams, Liam Gerrard, Nigel Patterson, Helen Lloyd, Tim Bruce
- Released
- December 8, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature)
- ISBN
- 9781665021500
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales as an audiobook?
The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales runs 12.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.2 hours.
Is The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales?
The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales is narrated by James Gillies, Malk Williams, Liam Gerrard and Nigel Patterson and others.
Is The Essential Dickens Christmas: A Christmas Carol and Eight Festive Tales worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.2 hours, saving 4.1 hours.