How long does it take to read Literature?
reading, reacting, writing
Laurie G. Kirszner, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin
Literature by Laurie G. Kirszner, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin takes about 31 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 31 hours 54 minutes
A long haul
First published 1991. 1,740 pages, about 478,500 words.
64 days (about 10 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 53 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 31 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 19 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Criticism, Rhetoric, Theory, History and criticism, Authorship, Academic writing
