How long does it take to read The Encyclopedia of Fantasy?
John Clute, John Grant, Mike Ashley, David G. Hartwell, Gary Westfahl
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute, John Grant, Mike Ashley, David G. Hartwell, Gary Westfahl takes about 19 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 19 hours 14 minutes
A long haul
First published 1997. 1,049 pages, about 288,475 words.
39 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 32 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This huge volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the fantasy field, offering an exciting new analysis of this highly diverse and hugely popular sphere of literature, from precursors such as Shakespeare and Dante, through Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and L. Frank Baum to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and their modern successors, like Ursula K. Le Guin, Peter S. Beagle, Stephen R. Donaldson and Jostein Gaarder. With over 4,000 entries and over 1 million words, it covers every aspect of fantasy - in literature, films, television, opera, art and comics.
Subjects: Encyclopedias, Fantasy films, Fantasy in art, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Science-fiction
