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A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies

A Mixture of Frailties: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Salterton series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Mixture of Frailties runs 12.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Frederick Davidson (about 8.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.8listening hrs
Fictionstore shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish A Mixture of Frailties at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day26 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.8 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 62,518 Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Salterton Trilogy

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 18.5 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 31.3 hours in all.

About as long, on the Fiction shelf

8,078 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

A Mixture of Frailties is book 3 of Robertson Davies's Salterton series: a 12.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Frederick Davidson, released September 28, 2009, on the Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.8 hrs
Narrated by
Frederick Davidson
Released
September 28, 2009
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fiction
Series
The Salterton Trilogy #3
ISBN
9781483054551

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Mixture of Frailties as an audiobook?

A Mixture of Frailties runs 12.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.6 hours.

Is A Mixture of Frailties free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates A Mixture of Frailties?

A Mixture of Frailties is narrated by Frederick Davidson.

Is A Mixture of Frailties worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.6 hours, saving 4.3 hours.