How long does it take to read The Experience of Literature?
Lionel Trilling, William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Shaw, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Camus
The Experience of Literature by Lionel Trilling, William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Shaw, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Camus takes about 24 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 24 hours 12 minutes
A long haul
First published 1967. 1,320 pages, about 363,000 words.
49 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 40 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 24 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 15 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Table of Contents (the following all with commentaries/criticism): Sophocles - Oedipus Rex; William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Lear; Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck; Anton Chekhov - The Three Sisters; George Bernard Shaw - The Doctor's Dilemma; Luigi Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author: a comdey in the making; William Butler Years - Purgatory; Bertolt Brecht - Galileo; Nathaniel Hawthorne - My Kinsman, Major Molineaux; Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener: a story of Wall Street; Fedor Dostoevski - The Grand Inquisitor; Leo Tolstoi - The Death of Ivan Ilych; William Somerset Maugham - The Treasure; Guy de Maupassant - Duchoux; Anton Checkhov - Enemies; Henry James - The Pupil; Joseph Conrad - The SEcret Sharer; James Joyce - The Dead; Franz Kafka - The Hunter Gracchus; D.H. Lawrence - Tickets, Please; E.M. Forster - The Road from Colonus; Thomas Mann - Disorder and Early Sorrow; Isaac Babel - Di Grasso: a tale of Odessa; Isak Dinesen - The Sailor-Boy's Tale; Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants; William Faulkner - Barn Burning; John O'Hara Summer's Day; Lionel Trilling - Of this Time, of that Place; Albert Camus - The Guest; Bernard Malamud - The Magic Barrel; Various poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, William butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Robert Lowell The following additional poems are included by the following authors but do not have commentary/criticism: John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Ralegh, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, Sir John Davies, Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Webster, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, James Shirley, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Sir John.
Subjects: Collections, Anthologies, Fiction, Young men, Copyists, Psychology
