How long does it take to read Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages?
Harold Bloom, G. K. Chesterton, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Harold Bloom, G. K. Chesterton, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton takes about 10 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 573 pages, about 157,575 words. Written for children.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding to the four seasons. A Crazy tale / Gilbert Keith Chesterton How the rhinoceros got his skin / Rudyard Kipling Reflections / Lafcadio Hearn Complements / Emile Zola The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers / John Ruskin The Elephant's child / Rudyard Kipling The Bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson The Remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Rudyard Kipling Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / Catherine Sinclair The Fox and the hedgehog / Aesop The Goose-girl / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary de Morgan The Crow and the pitcher / Aesop The Bridge comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane Humpty Dumpty / Lewis Carroll The Stag looking into the water / Aesop The Mock Turtle's story / Lewis Carroll The Problem of Thor Bridge / Arthur Conan Doyle Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Spring lover and the autumn lover / Lafcadio Hearn The Three strangers / Thomas Hardy How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy Ali the Persian's story of the Kurd Sharper / The Arabian Nights Feathertop a moralized legend / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Recessional / Saki Death and Cupid / Aesop The Red shoes / Hans Christian Andersen The Signal-man / Charles Dickens Witches' loaves / O. Henry The Horla, or modern ghosts / Guy de Maupassant The Belltower / Herman Melville In the dark / E. Nesbit William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe The Queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin All souls' / Edith Wharton The Remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells The Nose / Nikolai Gogol The Song of triumphant love / Ivan Turgenev
Subjects: Collections, Children's stories, Stories, Poetry, collections, Child and youth non-fiction, Children's fiction
