How long does it take to read The Last Word and Other Stories?
The Last Word and Other Stories by Graham Greene takes about 2 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1990. 149 pages, about 40,975 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The old man was only a little surprised, because he was by now well accustomed to inexplicable events, when he received at the hands of a stranger, a passport in a name which was not his own, a visa and an exit permit for a country which he had never expected or even desired to visit. He was indeed very old, and he was accustomed to the narrow life he had led alone without human contacts: he had even found a kind of happiness in deprivation. He had a single room to live and sleep in, a small kitchen and a bathroom. Once a month there came a small but sufficient pension which arrive from from Somewhere, but he didn't know where. Perhaps it was connected with the accident years before which had robbed him of his memory. All that had remained in his mind of that occasion was a sharp noise, a flash like lightening and then a long darkness full of confusing dreams from which he finally work in the same small room that he lived in now.
Subjects: Short stories, Manners and customs, English Short stories, Fiction
