Why Read the Classics?: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Why Read the Classics? audiobook runs 9.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.7 hours, it runs longer than 75% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini narrates 448 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,500 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
515 Classics (Literature) 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
Why Read the Classics? is an audiobook by Italo Calvino: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Edoardo Ballerini, released May 24, 2018, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Released
- May 24, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Classics (Literature)
- ISBN
- 9781501963711
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Why Read the Classics? audiobook?
Why Read the Classics? runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
Is the Why Read the Classics? audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Why Read the Classics??
Why Read the Classics? is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.