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The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Piazza Tales runs 8.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Eloise Fairfax (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.4listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Piazza Tales at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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

What our data says

  • At 8.4 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

592 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2018 recording read by Pete Cross and Michael Lackey runs 1.6 hours longer (9.9 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 Piazza Tales is an audiobook by Herman Melville: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Eloise Fairfax, released May 19, 2025, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.4 hrs
Narrated by
Eloise Fairfax
Released
May 19, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781802566130

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Piazza Tales as an audiobook?

The Piazza Tales runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.

Is The Piazza Tales free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Piazza Tales?

The Piazza Tales is narrated by Eloise Fairfax.