The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West runs 3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Joe Barrett (about 2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day | 3 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 2 days |
You'll finish in – by –
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What our data says
- At 3 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 14,091 Non-fiction (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Joe Barrett
Joe Barrett narrates 394 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,244 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf
764 Non-fiction (Kids) 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 Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West is an audiobook by Sid Fleischman: a 3-hour unabridged recording, read by Joe Barrett, released September 1, 2012, on the Non-fiction (Kids) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Joe Barrett
- Released
- September 1, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-fiction (Kids)
- ISBN
- 9781620645697
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West as an audiobook?
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West runs 3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2 hours.
Is The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West?
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West is narrated by Joe Barrett.