The Idiot: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Idiot runs an estimated 18.3 hours (about 12.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 18.3 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 37 days |
| 1 hour / day | 19 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 13 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 18.3 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 90% of the historical fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 56% longer than the average historical fiction audiobook (11.7 hrs across 210 titles in our dataset).
Computed from historical fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for historical fiction listeners: a long-haul epic at 18.3 hours (estimated).
About the book
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett's drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.
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How long is The Idiot as an audiobook?
The Idiot runs about 18.3 hours, our estimate from its 620 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.2 hours.
Can I listen to The Idiot free?
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Is The Idiot worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.2 hours, saving 6.1 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was The Idiot first published?
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was first published in 1874.
