How long does it take to read Nature and Selected Essays?
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson takes about 7 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 415 pages, about 114,125 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson's ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature.
Subjects: Aesthetic realism, Philosophy, american, Essays
