The School of Life: An Emotional Education: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The School of Life: An Emotional Education runs 9.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Charlie Anson and Alain de Botton (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 4,105 Mindfulness & Meditation audiobooks in our catalog.
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Charlie Anson narrates 23 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 251 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Mindfulness & Meditation shelf
261 Mindfulness & Meditation audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The School of Life: An Emotional Education is an audiobook by Alain de Botton: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Charlie Anson and Alain de Botton, released September 5, 2019, on the Mindfulness & Meditation and Lessons in Philosophy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Charlie Anson, Alain de Botton
- Released
- September 5, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mindfulness & Meditation, Lessons in Philosophy, Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9780241985946
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The School of Life: An Emotional Education as an audiobook?
The School of Life: An Emotional Education runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is The School of Life: An Emotional Education free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The School of Life: An Emotional Education?
The School of Life: An Emotional Education is narrated by Charlie Anson and Alain de Botton.