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The World and His Wife by Oliver Hailey

The World and His Wife: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The World and His Wife runs 1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by A Full Cast (about 0.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

1listening hrs
Theatre & Radiostore shelf
1999released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 1 hours, it is shorter than 70% of the 2,498 Theatre & Radio audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Theatre & Radio shelf

229 Theatre & Radio 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

The World and His Wife is an audiobook by Oliver Hailey: a 1-hour unabridged recording, read by A Full Cast, released January 1, 1999, on the Theatre & Radio shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
1 hrs
Narrated by
A Full Cast
Released
January 1, 1999
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Theatre & Radio

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The World and His Wife as an audiobook?

The World and His Wife runs 1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.7 hours.

Is The World and His Wife free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The World and His Wife?

The World and His Wife is narrated by A Full Cast.