How long does it take to read The Evil Image?
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King
The Evil Image by Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, M. R. James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King takes about 8 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1981. 479 pages, about 131,725 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited 2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706) 11 • On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment • (1773) • short story by Anna Letitia Barbauld and John Aikin (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment) [as by Dr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld] 18 • The Snow-Fiend • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 20 • December's Eve, Abroad • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 21 • December's Eve, At Home • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 23 • A Receipt for Writing a Novel • (1799) • poem by Mary Alcock 27 • Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine • (1796) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis 29 • Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis 35 • "Christabel" • (1797) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Christabel 1816) 55 • Manfred: A Dramatic Poem • (1817) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron 94 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1819) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori 110 • A Fragment of a Novel • (1819) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel) 117 • Transformation • (1830) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation) 133 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats 153 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott 169 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving 182 • Fall of the House of Usher• (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe 199 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne 212 • Rochester's…
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