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How long does it take to read The Crack-up, with Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-books and Unpublished Letters, Together with Letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and Others] Edited by Edmund Wilson?
The Crack-up, with Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-books and Unpublished Letters, Together with Letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos, and Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld [and Others] Edited by Edmund Wilson by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes about 6 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1945. 347 pages, about 95,425 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss.
Subjects: Correspondence, Notebooks, sketchbooks, American Authors, Authors, correspondence, American fiction
