How long does it take to read Eleven?
Eleven by Patricia Highsmith takes about 3 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 180 pages, about 49,500 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The stories in Eleven are small masterpieces of Patricia Highsmith’s particular art—that of obsession and foreboding, of probing the dark corners of the human psyche. From the eerily outlandish (a man suffocated by countless snails) to the irrational and brutal (a child’s revenge on his mother for cooking his pet turtle), Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange, unspoken urges, and their cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of her novels. publisher page
Subjects: dark, psychological, horror, short stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, short stories (single author)
