How long does it take to read The Best American Short Stories of the Century?
John Updike, Katrina Kenison
The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike, Katrina Kenison takes about 14 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 775 pages, about 213,125 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and scores of others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century. Their artistry is represented splendidly in these pages.
Subjects: American Short stories, American fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs, Canadian Short stories, Short stories
