How long does it take to read Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying?
Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying by Roald Dahl takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1946. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya. The 10 stories featured are: - Death of an Old, Old Man - An African Story - A Piece of Cake - Madame Rosette - Katina - Yesterday Was Beautiful - They Shall Not Grow Old - Beware of the Dog - Only This - Someone Like You
Subjects: World War II, Royal Air Force, resistance to interrogation, hard water, soft water, World War
