How long does it take to read Great Short Stories of the World?
Isak Dinesen, Sholom Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, W. Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, Maxim Gorky, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson
Great Short Stories of the World by Isak Dinesen, Sholom Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, W. Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, Maxim Gorky, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson takes about 14 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 39 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1972. 799 pages, about 219,725 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 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers Hautot and his son / Guy de Maupassat The open boat / Stephen Crane My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway A letter to God / Gregorio López y Fuentes The little Bouilloux girl / Colette The ruby / Corrado Alvaro Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer The boarding house / James Joyce The brute / Joseph Conrad A double game / Alberto Moravia Maternity / Lilika Nakos Lead her like a pigeon / Jessamyn West God sees the truth, but waits / Leo Tolstoy The walker-through-walls / Marcel Ayme The lottery / Shirley Jackson The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm / Mark Twain The Augsburg chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht The overcoat / Sally Benson Blind MacNair / Thomas H. Raddall The procurator of Judaea / Anatole France The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) María Concepción / Katherine A. Porter My Lord, the baby / Rabindranath Tagore The end of the party / Graham Greene Modern children / Sholom Aleichem Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrion spring / Wallace Stegner Just lather, that's all / Hernando Téllez The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence The Sunday menace / Robert Benchley The Mezzotint /Montague R. James The alligators / John Updike Pelageya / Mikhail Zoshchenko Haircut / Ring Lardner The burning city / Hjalmar Söderberg Fireworks for Elspeth / Rumer Godden The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing Who cares? / Santha Rama Rau Over the river and though the wood / John O'Hara Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman The drover's wife / Henry Lawson The huntsmen / Paul Horgan The guest / Albert Camus Patience / Nigel Balchin Among the paths to Eden / Truman Capote…
Subjects: Short stories, fiction, Mothers and daughters, Horror stories, Rites and ceremonies, Manners and customs
