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How long does it take to read The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories?

Ray Bradbury, Charles Grandison Finney, Nigel Kneale, E. B. White, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, Oliver Lafarge, Henry Kuttner, James H. Schmitz, John Seymour, Robert M. Coates

The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories by Ray Bradbury, Charles Grandison Finney, Nigel Kneale, E. B. White, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Loren Eiseley, Oliver Lafarge, Henry Kuttner, James H. Schmitz, John Seymour, Robert M. Coates takes about 3 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 51 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1956. 210 pages, about 57,750 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 25 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 51 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The circus of Dr. Lao, by C.G. Finney. The pond, by N. Kneale. The hour of letdown, by E.B. White. The wish, by R. Dahl. The summer people, by S. Jackson. Earth's holocaust, by Hawthorne. Buzby's petrified woman, by L. Eiseley. The resting place, by O. LaFarge. Threshold, by H. Kuttner. Greenface, by J.H. Schmitz. The limits of Walter Horton, by J.S. Sharnik. The man who vanished, by R.M. Coates.

Subjects: Fantasy fiction, Verhalen, Het fantastische, Amerikaans

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