How long does it take to read Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition?
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Jorge Luis Borges, Chinua Achebe, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennessee Williams
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition by X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Jorge Luis Borges, Chinua Achebe, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennessee Williams takes about 21 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 21 hours 48 minutes
A long haul
First published 2016. 1,189 pages, about 326,975 words.
44 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 36 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 21 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai -- Independence / Chuang Tzu -- Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Plot -- The short story -- A & P / John Updike -- Writing effectively -- Point of view -- Identifying point of view -- Types of narrators -- How much does a narrator know? -- Stream of consciousness -- A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Writing effectively -- Character -- Characterization -- Motivation -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Writing effectively -- Setting -- Elements of setting -- Historical fiction -- Regionalism -- Naturalism -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges -- A pair of tickets / Amy Tan -- Writing effectively -- Tone and Style -- Tone -- Style -- Diction -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Irony -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Writing effectively -- Theme -- Plot versus theme -- Summarizing the theme -- Finding the theme -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- The parable of the prodigal son / Luke -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Writing effectively -- Symbol -- Allegory -- Symbols -- Recognizing symbols -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Writing effectively -- Stories for further reading -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman…
Subjects: Collections, American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories
