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Twenty love poems and a song of despair: Audiobook

The Twenty love poems and a song of despair audiobook runs an estimated 2.8 hours (about 1.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

2.8est. listening hrs
4.2★23 ratings
Romancegenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 2.8 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Twenty love poems and a song of despair at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day6 days
1 hour / day3 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×2 days

What our data says

  • At 2.8 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 100% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 66% shorter than the average romance audiobook (8.3 hrs across 3596 titles in our dataset).

Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for romance listeners who want a central love story: a weekend-size listen at 2.8 hours (estimated).

About the book

Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair is a collection of romantic poems by 1971 Noble laureate of literature, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 by Editorial Nascimiento. Neruda was 19 at the time the book was published, and this was Neruda's second published work after Crepusculario , but Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair is regarded as the work who made him a name as a poet.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Twenty love poems and a song of despair audiobook?

Twenty love poems and a song of despair runs about 2.8 hours, our estimate from its 96 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 1.9 hours.

Is the Twenty love poems and a song of despair audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

When was Twenty love poems and a song of despair first published?

Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda was first published in 1924.