How long does it take to read Essays?
Essays by Italo Calvino takes about 2 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 16 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 124 pages, about 34,100 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Six memos for the Next Millenium" is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become the watch-words for out appreciation of Calvino himself. What should be cherished in literature? Calvino devotes one lecture, or memo to the reader, toe each of five indispensable qualities: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. A sixth lecture, on consistency, was never committed to paper, and we are left only to ponder the possibilities. With this book, he gives us the most eloquent defense to literature written in our century - a fitting gift for the next millennium.
Subjects: Essays, History and criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary style, Nonfiction, Philosophy
