How long does it take to read That Glimpse of Truth?
David Miller, Charles Dickens, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That Glimpse of Truth by David Miller, Charles Dickens, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes about 17 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 22 minutes
A long haul
First published 2014. 947 pages, about 260,425 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect companion for any fiction lover. Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, childhood favourites and neglected masters, twenty-first century wits and national treasures. Featuring an all-star cast of authors, including Julian Barnes, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Roald Dahl, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, V.S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon and Muriel Spark, THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH is the biggest, most handsome collection of short fiction in print today.
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), Short stories, Nouvelles, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons
