How long does it take to read Essays?
George Orwell, John Carey
Essays by George Orwell, John Carey takes about 25 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 25 hours 51 minutes
A long haul
First published 2002. 1,410 pages, about 387,750 words.
52 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 43 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 25 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Though best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell's famous discussion of pacifism, "My Country Right or Left," his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in "Shooting an Elephant," and his very firm opinion on how to make "A Nice Cup of Tea." In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas-his desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in language-are as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.
Subjects: History and criticism, Fiction, Children's periodicals, English authors, Literature, history and criticism, Fiction, short stories (single author)
