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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England by Elliot Engel, Edgar Allan Poe

A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England runs 6.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Kevin McCarthy and Gregory Hines and others (about 4.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6.8listening hrs
History & Culturestore shelf
2015released
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  • At 6.8 hours, it is shorter than 66% of the 5,224 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 14 hours in all.

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.

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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England is an audiobook by Elliot Engel, Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde: a 6.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Kevin McCarthy, Gregory Hines and Melissa Manchester and others, released May 12, 2015, on the History & Culture shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
6.8 hrs
Narrated by
Kevin McCarthy, Gregory Hines, Melissa Manchester, Joel Grey, Efrem Zimbalist, Bronson Pinchot
Released
May 12, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
History & Culture
ISBN
9781483084558

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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England runs 6.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.5 hours.

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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 3; Selections from A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain,Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England is narrated by Kevin McCarthy, Gregory Hines, Melissa Manchester and Joel Grey and others.