How long does it take to read The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares?
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates takes about 6 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 365 pages, about 100,375 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
Subjects: Short stories, American Horror fiction, Human sacrifice, Fiction, Fiction, suspense, Single women, fiction
