How long does it take to read The Essential Ellison?
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison takes about 18 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 57 minutes
A long haul
First published 1987. 1,034 pages, about 284,350 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 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid.". "But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison's first professional writing appeared in print: the initial installment of a five-part adventure serial (liberally cribbed from Sir Walter Scott) titled "The Sword of Parmagon."". "Now, in a retrospective, 50 years of the best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in a volume exceeding 1200 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews and (published for the first time anywhere) a complete teleplay. Eight-six complete and (with one exception) unabridged examples of the nonpareil writings of the man The Los Angeles Times labels "the 20th Century Lewis Carroll.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Science fiction, American, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction
