Which Tenant of Wildfell Hall recording should you buy?
The complete readings of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that we list run 13 hrs 33 mins to 20 hrs 28 mins, several of them shared between two readers. Beside them are a short abridgement, AI voices, and a pair of listings with the same two readers whose runtimes differ by a few minutes.
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Short answer
Adjoa Andoh: complete and solo, the Penguin Classics edition. Alex Jennings with Jenny Agutter, Piers Wehner with Katy Carmichael, and Frederick Davidson with Nadia May each share the book between two voices, if you want that; Emma Gregory, Sara Nichols and Mary Sarah Agliotta read it alone. The complete readings in the table run 13 hrs 33 mins to 20 hrs 28 mins. Worth knowing: Jennings and Agutter appear on two listings a few minutes apart in length; we have not established whether they are the same recording. And the Carole Boyd and David Rintoul edition is abridged. The editions credited to an "AI Voice" are synthetic voices.
The recordings, compared
| Narrator | Length | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjoa Andoh Our pick | 19 hrs 3 mins | Unabridged | Complete and solo, the Penguin Classics edition. |
| Alex Jennings and Jenny Agutter | 16 hrs 21 mins | Unabridged | Complete, with two readers. A second listing with the same two readers runs a few minutes longer; we have not established whether it is the same recording. |
| Emma Gregory | 17 hrs 55 mins | Unabridged | Complete and solo. |
| Piers Wehner and Katy Carmichael | 20 hrs 28 mins | Unabridged | Complete, with two readers. |
| Mary Sarah Agliotta | 13 hrs 33 mins | Unabridged | Complete and solo. |
| Sara Nichols | 18 hrs 1 min | Unabridged | Complete and solo. |
| Frederick Davidson and Nadia May | 15 hrs 41 mins | Unabridged | Complete, with two readers. |
| Carole Boyd and David Rintoul | 2 hrs 21 mins | Abridged | Abridged, at 17% of the shortest complete reading here. The same readers and running time appear on a second listing. |
| AI Voice Olivia Lane | 20 hrs 52 mins | AI narration (Virtual Voice) | A synthetic voice, credited as an AI Voice. |
| AI Voice (Kokoro TTS) | 17 hrs 57 mins | AI narration (Virtual Voice) | Another synthetic-voice edition. |