How long does it take to read Selected Essays, 1917-1932?
Selected Essays, 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot takes about 8 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1932. 460 pages, about 126,500 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tradition and the individual talent (1917) -- The function of criticism (1923) -- Rhetoric and poetic drama (1919) -- A dialogue on dramatic poetry (1928) -- Euripides and Professor Murray (1918) -- Seneca in Elizabethan translation (1927) -- The Elizabethan dramatists (1924) -- Christopher Marlowe (1918) -- Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca (1927) -- Hamlet and his problems (1919) -- Ben Jonson (1919) -- Thomas Middleton (1927) -- Thomas Heywood (1931) -- Cyril Tourneur (1931) -- John Ford (1932) -- Philip Massinger (1920) -- Dante (1929) -- The metaphysical poets (1921) -- Andrew Marvell (1921) -- John Dryden (1922) -- William Blake (1920) -- Swinburne as poet (1920) -- Lancelot Andrewes (1926) -- John Bramhall (1927) -- Thoughts after Lambeth (1931) -- Baudelaire (1930) -- Arnold and Pater (1930) -- Francis Herbert Bradley (1926) -- Marie Lloyd (1923) -- Wilkie Collins and Dickens (1927) -- The humanism of Irving Babbit (1927) -- Second thoughts on humanism (1929) -- Charles Whibley (1931).
Subjects: Criticism, History and criticism, Addresses, essays, lectures
