The Smiling Country: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Hewey Calloway series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Smiling Country runs 7.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by George Guidall (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 7.8 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 5,087 Westerns & War audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Hewey Calloway
This is book 1. Books 1 to 5 run 36.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Smiling Country | 7.8 hrs |
| 2 | The Good Old Boys | 9.5 hrs |
| 3 | Six Bits a Day | 6.7 hrs |
| 4 | The Unlikely Lawman: A Hewey Calloway Adventure | 5.7 hrs |
| 5 | Elmer Kelton's The Familiar Stranger | 6.5 hrs |
More narrated by George Guidall
George Guidall narrates 722 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 7,374 hours in all.
About as long, on the Westerns & War shelf
731 Westerns & War 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 Smiling Country is book 1 of Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway series: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by George Guidall, released November 22, 2017, on the Westerns & War shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- George Guidall
- Released
- November 22, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Westerns & War
- Series
- Hewey Calloway #1
- ISBN
- 9781501982668
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Smiling Country as an audiobook?
The Smiling Country runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.
Is The Smiling Country free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Smiling Country?
The Smiling Country is narrated by George Guidall.