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Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

Wessex Tales: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Wessex Tales audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by James Harrington (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.5listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2024released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Wessex Tales at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day15 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 7.5 hours, it runs longer than 64% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

650 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2023 recording read by Tadhg runs about the same length (7.5 hours).
  • The 2019 recording read by Steven Green runs 0.9 hours longer (8.4 hours).
  • The 2012 recording read by Nicholas Paul and Neville Jason runs 3.1 hours longer (10.6 hours).

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

Wessex Tales is an audiobook by Thomas Hardy: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by James Harrington, released June 26, 2024, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.5 hrs
Narrated by
James Harrington
Released
June 26, 2024
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781911065487

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Wessex Tales audiobook?

Wessex Tales runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.

Is the Wessex Tales audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Wessex Tales?

Wessex Tales is narrated by James Harrington.