How long does it take to read Ella Minnow Pea?
Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel told entirely through letters and notes exchanged among the residents of Nollop, an invented island off the South Carolina coast. The island honors Nevin Nollop, said to have devised a famous sentence containing every letter of the alphabet, which is displayed on his memorial statue. When tiles begin dropping from the inscription, the council reads each fall as a divine order and bans that letter from speech and writing, with escalating punishments. As letters vanish, the characters' own prose, including young Ella's, grows ever stranger.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fables, Fiction, Fantasy, Communal living, Islands, Humor (Fiction)
