How long does it take to read Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition?
Kennedy, X. & Gioia, D., Dana Gioia, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, X. J. Kennedy
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition by Kennedy, X. & Gioia, D., Dana Gioia, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, X. J. Kennedy takes about 39 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 39 hours 11 minutes
A long haul
First published 2006. 2,137 pages, about 587,675 words.
79 days (about 12 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 65 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 39 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 24 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, short story, Fiction
