How long does it take to read Novels and Stories?
Novels and Stories by Shirley Jackson takes about 15 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 10 minutes
A long haul
First published 2010. 827 pages, about 227,425 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris The Intoxicated The Daemon Lover Like Mother Used to Make Trial by Combat The Villager My Life with R. H. Macy The Witch The Renegade After You, My Dear Alphonse Charles Afternoon in Linen Flower Garden Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors Colloquy Elizabeth A Fine Old Firm The Dummy Seven Types of Ambiguity Come Dance with Me in Ireland Of Course Pillar of Salt Men with Their Big Shoes The Tooth Got a Letter from Jimmy Lottery Epilogue The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches Uncollected Stories Janice A Cauliflower in Her Hair Behold the Child Among His Newborn Blisses It Isn’t the Money I Mind The Third Baby’s the Easiest The Summer People Island The Night We All Had Grippe A Visit; or, The Lovely House This Is the Life; or, Journey with a Lady One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts Louisa, Please Come Home The Little House The Bus The Possibility of Evil Unpublished Stories Portrait The Mouse I Know Who I Love The Beautiful Stranger The Rock The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith Appendix: Biography of a Story
Subjects: American Horror tales, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, horror, Récits d'horreur américains, American fiction, American Short stories