How long does it take to read Dance of the Happy Shades?
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro takes about 4 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 227 pages, about 62,425 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fifteen stories about life in rural Ontario deal with adolescence, loneliness, broken hearts, an abandoned wife, family relations, blind dates, and an aspiring writer.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Canadian Short stories, Country life, English Short stories, Manners and customs
