The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales runs 14.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gerard Doyle (about 9.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 14.5 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Gerard Doyle
Gerard Doyle narrates 168 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,669 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
290 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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 Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales is an audiobook by Bruno Bettelheim: a 14.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Gerard Doyle, released February 28, 2017, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gerard Doyle
- Released
- February 28, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology
- ISBN
- 9781515988533
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales as an audiobook?
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales runs 14.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.6 hours.
Is The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales is narrated by Gerard Doyle.
Is The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.6 hours, saving 4.8 hours.