How long does it take to read Complete Tales and Poems?
Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe takes about 18 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 46 minutes
A long haul
First published 1992. 1,024 pages, about 281,600 words.
38 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
71 stories: Duc De L'Omelette -- Tale of Jerusalem -- Loss of breath -- Bon-bon -- Four beasts in one -- the Homo-Cameleopard -- MS. Found in a bottle -- Assignation Unparallelled adventure of one Hans Pfaall -- Lionizing -- Shadow: A parable -- Silence — A Fable Berenice Morella -- King Pest -- Mystification -- Ligeia -- How to write a Blackwood article -- Devil in the belfry -- Man that was used up -- Fall of the House of Usher William Wilson Conversation of Eiros and Charmion -- Some account of Stonehenge, the giant's dance -- Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling -- Instinct vs Reason: A black cat -- Business man -- Philosophy of furniture -- Man of the crowd -- Island of the Fay Murders in the Rue Morgue -- Descent into the Maelstrom Colloquy of Monos and Una -- Never bet the devil your head -- Eleonora Three Sundays in a week -- Oval portrait -- Masque of the Red Death Pit and the Pendulum Mystery of Marie Rogêt -- Morning on the Wissahiccon -- Tell-tale Heart Gold bug -- Black Cat Diddling considered as one of the exact sciences -- Byron and Miss Chaworth -- Spectacles -- Oblong box -- Tale of the ragged mountains -- Premature Burial Purloined Letter System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether -- Mesmeric Revelation Thou art the man -- Balloon-hoax -- Angel of the odd -- Literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq. -- Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade Some words with a mummy -- Power of words -- Imp of the Perverse Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Sphinx -- Cask of Amontillado Domain of Arnheim Mellonta Tauta -- Landor's Cottage Hop-frog -- Von Kempelen and His Discovery X-ing a Paragrab. Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. 64 poems: O, Tempora! O, Mores! -- To Margaret -- To Octavia -- Tamerlane -- Song -- Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- Imitation -- Stanzas -- Dream -- "The happiest day -- the happiest hour --" Lake: to -- -- Sonnett: To science -- Al Aaraaf -- Mysterious star! -- Romance -- Introduction -- ("The bowers…
Subjects: short stories, aristocracy, satire, American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime
