The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays runs 10 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mark Bowen and Peter Coates (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.
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Mark Bowen narrates 259 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,052 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf
322 Non-fiction (Kids) 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 Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays is an audiobook by Ralph Waldo Emerson: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Bowen and Peter Coates, released January 10, 2025, on the Non-fiction (Kids) and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Released
- January 10, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-fiction (Kids), Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 4069828064874
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays as an audiobook?
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.
Is The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays?
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays is narrated by Mark Bowen and Peter Coates.
Is The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The American Scholar and other essays worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.3 hours.