How long does it take to read The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell?
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell by George Orwell takes about 10 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1968. 555 pages, about 152,625 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Front of Your Nose features Orwell's final writings, including extracts from his manuscript notebook, as well as details of his remarriage and adoption of a son, notes on the writing and publication of Nineteen Eighty-four, as well as reviews of books by Jean-Paul Sartre and Graham Greene, an examination of politics and literature in Gulliver's Travels, and the hidden meanings of "nonsense poetry."
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), Correspondence, Journalists, Translating and interpreting, English Authors, Fiction
