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How long does it take to read Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories?

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett takes about 4 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 28 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1897. 244 pages, about 67,100 words. Written for children.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 28 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 48 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories is collection of short stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett. - Sara Crewe or What happen at Miss Minchin's - Little Saint Elizabeth - The Story of Prince Fairyfoot - The Proud Little Grain of Wheat - Behind the White Brick A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialised novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine. According to Burnett, she had been composing a play based on the story when she found out a lot of characters she had missed. The publisher asked her to publish a new, revised story of the novella, producing the novel.

Subjects: classics, short stories, coming-of-age, friendship, family, boarding school

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