How long does it take to read Great Short Stories of the World?
Barrett H. Clark, Maxim Lieber, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Clark And Lieber, Gerda Charles, Clark, Barrett H.; Lieber, Maxim, Barrett H. & Maxim Lieber Clark, Barrett H. and Maxim Lieber Clark, Clark & Lieber, Barrett Harper Clark
Great Short Stories of the World by Barrett H. Clark, Maxim Lieber, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Clark And Lieber, Gerda Charles, Clark, Barrett H.; Lieber, Maxim, Barrett H. & Maxim Lieber Clark, Barrett H. and Maxim Lieber Clark, Clark & Lieber, Barrett Harper Clark takes about 19 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 19 hours 39 minutes
A long haul
First published 1922. 1,072 pages, about 294,800 words.
40 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 32 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus -- The matron of Ephesus / Petronius -- The haunted house / Pliny the Younger -- The dream / Apuleius -- The book of Ruth (Old Testament) -- The history of Susanna (The Apocrypha) -- The prodigal son (New Testament) -- The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) -- Rabbi Akiva (The Talmud) -- The Jewish mother (The Talmud) -- The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) -- The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) -- The story of Devadatta / Somadeva -- The jackal (Hitopadesa) -- Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi -- The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous -- Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asmal -- Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) -- Grendel's raid (Beowulf) -- Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth -- The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) -- Lludd and Llevelys (The Mabinogion) -- Launcelot's tourney / Sir Thomas Malory -- Roberto's tale / Robert Greene -- True relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal / Daniel Defoe -- The story of an heir / Joseph Addison -- The disabled soldier / Oliver Goldsmith -- The bridal of Janet Dalrymple / Sir Walter Scott -- The white trout / Samuel Lover -- The queer client / Charles Dickens -- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- Squire Petrick's lady / Thomas Hardy -- Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde -- Julia Cahill's curse / George Moore -- That brute Simmons / Arthur Morrison. The lay of Hildebrand / Anonymous -- Siegfried and Kriemhild (The lay of the Nibelungs) -- The coming of Gandin / Gottfried von Strassburg -- Bruin the bear & Reynard the fox (Reynard the fox) -- Eulenspiegel and the merchant…
Subjects: Short stories, American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories
