How long does it take to read The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe?
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe takes about 18 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 49 minutes
A long haul
First published 1938. 1,026 pages, about 282,150 words.
38 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
73 stories: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall The Gold-Bug The Balloon-Hoax Von Kempelen and His Discovery Mesmeric Revelation Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade MS. Found in a Bottle . Descent into the Maelstrom The Murders in the Rue Morgue . The Mystery of Marie Roget Purloined Letter Black Cat Fall of the House of Usher Pit and the Pendulum Premature Burial Masque of the Red Death Cask of Amontillado Imp of the Perverse Island of the Fay The Oval Portrait Assignation Tell-tale Heart The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. . How to Write a Blackwood Article A Predicament Mystification . X-ing a Paragrab Diddling The Angel of the Odd Mellonta Tauta . Loss of Breath The Man that Was Used Up The Business Man . Maelzel's Chess-Player . The Power of Words The Colloquy of Monos and Una . . The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion . Shadow—A Parable . Silence — A Fable Philosophy Of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx The Man of the Crowd . Never Bet the Devil Your Head Thou Art the Man Hop-Frog Four Beasts in One; The Homo-Camelopard . Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling . Bon-Bon . Some Words with a Mummy Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petræa" . Magazine-Writing—Peter Snook The Quacks of Helicon—A Satire . Astoria Domain of Arnheim Landor's Cottage William Wilson Berenice Eleonora Ligeia . Morella Metzengerstein A Tale of the Ragged Mountains . The Spectacles Duc De L'Ome1ette The Oblong Box . King Pest Three Sundays in a V.•eek The Devil in the Belfry . Lionizing . Narrative of A. Gordon Pym Preface to the Poems The Poetic Principle . The Rationale of Verse . Raven Lenore Hymn . A Valentine . The Coliseum To Helen . Ulalume The Bells An Enigma Annabel Lee To My Mother . The Haunted Palace The Conqueror Worm . To S. 0—1) To One in Paradise . The Valley of Unrest The City in the Sea . The Sleeper Silence A Dream Within a Pream Dream-Land . To Zante . Eulalie…
Subjects: Laments, Narrative poetry, Poetry, Grief, American poetry, American Children's poetry
