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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Wives and Daughters: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Wives and Daughters audiobook runs 27.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Various Readers (about 18.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

27.4listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 27.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish Wives and Daughters at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day55 days
1 hour / day28 days
2 hours / day14 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×19 days

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What our data says

  • At 27.4 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

158 Historical (Fiction) 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

Wives and Daughters is an audiobook by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: a 27.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Various Readers, released January 1, 2011, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
27.4 hrs
Narrated by
Various Readers
Released
January 1, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Wives and Daughters audiobook?

Wives and Daughters runs 27.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 18.2 hours.

Is the Wives and Daughters audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Wives and Daughters?

Wives and Daughters is narrated by Various Readers.

Is Wives and Daughters worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 18.2 hours, saving 9.1 hours.