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The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Father Brown Collection series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown runs 17.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Brian Roberg and Martin Clifton (about 11.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

17.5listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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30 min / day35 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

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What our data says

  • At 17.5 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Father Brown Collection

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 35.1 hours in all.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

277 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 First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown is book 1 of Gilbert Keith Chesterton's Father Brown Collection series: a 17.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Brian Roberg and Martin Clifton, released April 1, 2020, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
17.5 hrs
Narrated by
Brian Roberg, Martin Clifton
Released
April 1, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
Series
The Father Brown Collection #1
ISBN
4064066514266

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown as an audiobook?

The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown runs 17.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.7 hours.

Is The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown?

The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown is narrated by Brian Roberg and Martin Clifton.

Is The First Father Brown Collection: The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.7 hours, saving 5.8 hours.