How long does it take to read The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition?
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition by Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood, Lewis Carroll, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright takes about 30 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 30 hours 59 minutes
A long haul
First published 2009. 1,690 pages, about 464,750 words.
62 days (about 9 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 51 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 30 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 19 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Horror stories, Juvenile fiction
