How long does it take to read My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead?
Jeffrey Eugenides, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Alice Munro, Jeffery Eugenides, William Trevor
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Alice Munro, Jeffery Eugenides, William Trevor takes about 10 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 587 pages, about 161,425 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
Subjects: Love stories, Romance fiction, Liebesgeschichte, Short stories, tradition, change
