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A Descent Into The Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe

A Descent Into The Maelstrom: Audiobook

by Edgar Allan Poe · narrated by Patrick Lawlor · unabridged · 2015

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Descent Into The Maelstrom runs 0.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Patrick Lawlor (about 0.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

0.8listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2015released
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What our data says

  • At 0.8 hours, it is shorter than 97% of the 5,930 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Patrick Lawlor

Patrick Lawlor narrates 252 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,236 hours in all.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

38 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

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Other recordings

  • The 2026 recording read by Saethon Williams runs about the same length (0.8 hours).

Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

A Descent Into The Maelstrom is an audiobook by Edgar Allan Poe: a 0.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Lawlor, released November 30, 2015, on the Literary Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
0.8 hrs
Narrated by
Patrick Lawlor
Released
November 30, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction
ISBN
9781593166052

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Descent Into The Maelstrom as an audiobook?

A Descent Into The Maelstrom runs 0.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.5 hours.

Is A Descent Into The Maelstrom free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates A Descent Into The Maelstrom?

A Descent Into The Maelstrom is narrated by Patrick Lawlor.