How long does it take to read 50 Great Short Stories?
50 Great Short Stories by Milton Crane takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1952. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
50 GREAT SHORT STORIES is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Fa'jikner, E.B. White, Saroyan and Salinger. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common - the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpiece of the world's fiction.
Subjects: American Short stories, English Short stories, Short stories
