The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation runs 0.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Laura Greaves (about 0.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 0.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day | 1 day |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 0.6 hours, it is shorter than 97% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 4.5 hours before it; books 1 to 24 run 12.3 hours in all.
More narrated by Laura Greaves
Laura Greaves narrates 123 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 454 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
99 Literary Fiction 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 Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation is book 7 of Katherine Mansfield's Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield series: a 0.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Laura Greaves, released December 14, 2025, on the Literary Fiction and Psychological shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 0.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Laura Greaves
- Released
- December 14, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Psychological, Short Stories
- Series
- Blissful Stories by Katherine Mansfield #7
- ISBN
- 9798295372100
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation as an audiobook?
The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation runs 0.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.4 hours.
Is The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation?
The Man Without a Temperament: A Classic Literary Short Story of Marriage, Sacrifice, and Emotional Isolation is narrated by Laura Greaves.