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The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down by Jonathan Gottschall

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down runs 7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Joshua Kane (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7listening hrs
Mental Health & Psychologystore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7 hours of listening.

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1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
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What our data says

  • At 7 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.

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 Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down is an audiobook by Jonathan Gottschall: a 7-hour unabridged recording, read by Joshua Kane, released November 23, 2021, on the Mental Health & Psychology and Biology & Chemistry shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7 hrs
Narrated by
Joshua Kane
Released
November 23, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mental Health & Psychology, Biology & Chemistry
ISBN
9781549109492

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down as an audiobook?

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down runs 7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.

Is The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down?

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down is narrated by Joshua Kane.