Heart of Darkness — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 4 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 4 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 98% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 56% shorter than the average romance audiobook (9 hrs across 819 titles in our dataset).
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners who want a central love story and a historical setting — a weekend-size listen at 4 hours (estimated).
About the book
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the European's cruel treatment of the natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver.
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How long is the Heart of Darkness audiobook?
Heart of Darkness runs about 4 hours — our estimate from its 136 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.7 hours.
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When was Heart of Darkness first published?
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was first published in 1899.
