How long does it take to read Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960?
Frank O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniel Fuchs, V. S. Pritchett, J. D. Salinger, Mavis Gallant, Calvin Kentfield, Natacha Stewart, Robert Henderson, John Updike, William Maxwell, Richard T. Gill, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Harold Brodkey, J. F. Powers, Mary Lavin, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Julia Strachey, Mary McCarthy, Richard Wilbur, Edith Templeton, Elizabeth Spencer, Oliver La Farge, Roger Angell, Benedict Kiely, Roald Dahl, Niccolò Tucci, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Stone, Arturo Vivante, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jean Stafford, Maeve Brennan, Nancy Hale, Angus Wilson, Robert M. Coates, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Hardwick, St. Clair McKelway, John Cheever
Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960 by Frank O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniel Fuchs, V. S. Pritchett, J. D. Salinger, Mavis Gallant, Calvin Kentfield, Natacha Stewart, Robert Henderson, John Updike, William Maxwell, Richard T. Gill, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Harold Brodkey, J. F. Powers, Mary Lavin, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Julia Strachey, Mary McCarthy, Richard Wilbur, Edith Templeton, Elizabeth Spencer, Oliver La Farge, Roger Angell, Benedict Kiely, Roald Dahl, Niccolò Tucci, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Stone, Arturo Vivante, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jean Stafford, Maeve Brennan, Nancy Hale, Angus Wilson, Robert M. Coates, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Hardwick, St. Clair McKelway, John Cheever takes about 15 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 5 minutes
A long haul
First published 1960. 823 pages, about 226,325 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Includes stories by Vladimir Nabokov, V.S. Pritchett, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Tennessee Williams, Mary McCarthy, Roald Dahl, Dorothy Parker, Nadine Gordimer, Eudora Welty, and John Cheever, among others.
Subjects: American Short stories, Social life and customs, Fiction, Manners and customs
