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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

The Glass Palace: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Glass Palace runs 18 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Vance (about 12 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 18 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Glass Palace at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day36 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 18 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

530 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2023 recording read by Ranjit Madgavkar runs 4.8 hours longer (22.7 hours).

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 Glass Palace is an audiobook by Amitav Ghosh: a 18-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released February 15, 2010, on the Historical (Fiction) and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
18 hrs
Narrated by
Simon Vance
Released
February 15, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Literary Fiction
ISBN
9781441834928

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Glass Palace as an audiobook?

The Glass Palace runs 18 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12 hours.

Is The Glass Palace free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Glass Palace?

The Glass Palace is narrated by Simon Vance.

Is The Glass Palace worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12 hours, saving 6 hours.