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Sholom Aleichem

Short Stories by Sholom Aleichem takes about 4 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 22 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1948. 238 pages, about 65,450 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 16 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 22 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 44 minutes

The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A collection of stories, sketches, monologues, and satire by the Yiddish humorist, showing adults and children in the act of being themselves in many situations--at school, at work, on holidays, and in railroad cars.

Subjects: Jews, Fiction, Children's stories, Hebrew, Short stories, Social life and customs, Fiction, jewish

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