War and Peace: Audiobook
The War and Peace audiobook runs an estimated 20.6 hours (about 13.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 20.6 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 42 days |
| 1 hour / day | 21 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 20.6 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 93% of the historical fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 76% longer than the average historical fiction audiobook (11.7 hrs across 210 titles in our dataset).
Computed from historical fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for historical fiction listeners who want a historical setting: a long-haul epic at 20.6 hours (estimated).
About the book
War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel begins in the year 1805 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I and leads up to the 1812 French invasion of Russia by Napoleon. The era of Catherine the Great (1762–1796), when the royal court in Paris was the centre of western European civilization,[16] is still fresh in the minds of older people. Catherine, fluent in French and wishing to reshape Russia into a great European nation, made French the language of her royal court. For the next one hundred years, it became a social requirement for members of the Russian nobility to speak French and understand French culture.[16] This historical and cultural context in the aristocracy is reflected in War and Peace.
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How long is the War and Peace audiobook?
War and Peace runs about 20.6 hours, our estimate from its 696 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.7 hours.
Can I listen to War and Peace free?
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Is War and Peace worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.7 hours, saving 6.9 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was War and Peace first published?
War and Peace by Лев Толстой was first published in 1864.
