How long does it take to read Fifty Best American Short Stories?
Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William March, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilbur Daniel Steele, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, Tess Slesinger, Pietro Di Donato, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Robert M. Coates, Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, Nancy Hale, Paul Horgan, Jesse Stuart, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, John Cheever, Jean Stafford, George P. Elliott, Hortense Calisher, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, James Agee, Bernard Malamud, Augusta Wallace Lyons, Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson, Frank Butler, Lawrence Sargent Hall, James Baldwin, Tillie Olsen, George P. Garrett, John Updike, H. W. Blattner, John Stewart Carter, William Eastlake, Joyce Carol Oates, M. (Ed.) Foley, Martha (Editor) Foley
Fifty Best American Short Stories by Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William March, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilbur Daniel Steele, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, Tess Slesinger, Pietro Di Donato, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Robert M. Coates, Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, Nancy Hale, Paul Horgan, Jesse Stuart, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, John Cheever, Jean Stafford, George P. Elliott, Hortense Calisher, Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, James Agee, Bernard Malamud, Augusta Wallace Lyons, Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson, Frank Butler, Lawrence Sargent Hall, James Baldwin, Tillie Olsen, George P. Garrett, John Updike, H. W. Blattner, John Stewart Carter, William Eastlake, Joyce Carol Oates, M. (Ed.) Foley, Martha (Editor) Foley takes about 14 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1965. 814 pages, about 223,850 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contents: Survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- Lost Phoebe / Theodore Dreiser -- Golden honeymoon / Ring W. Lardner -- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson -- My old man / Ernest Hemingway -- Telephone call / Dorothy Parker -- Double birthday / Willa Cather -- Faithful wife / Morley Callaghan -- Little wife / William March -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald-- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe -- Life in the day of a writer / Tess Slesinger -- Iron City / Lovell Thompson -- Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hand upon the waters / William Faulkner -- Net / Robert M. Coates -- Nothing ever breaks except the heart / Kay Boyle -- Search through the streets of the city / Irwin Shaw -- Who lived and died believing / Nancy Hale -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- Dawn of remembered spring / Jesse Stuart -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- Wind and the snow of winter / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford -- NRACP / George P. Elliott -- In Greenwich there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher -- Other foot / Ray Bradbury -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Mother's tale / James Agee -- Magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor -- First flower / Augusta Wallace Lyons -- Contest for Aaron Gold / Philip Roth -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- To the wilderness I wander / Frank Butler -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Old army game / George Garrett -- Pigeon feathers / John Updike -- Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner -- Keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter -- Long day's dying / William Eastlake -- Upon the…
Subjects: Best American Series ®, Short Stories, American Short stories, Bibliography, American Fiction, Anthology
