How long does it take to read The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories?
Mark Twain, Edmund Reiss
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Edmund Reiss takes about 5 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1916. 323 pages, about 88,825 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 68 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
[The title short story]... wrestles with questions of God and evil. It tells of a callous angel who drops in on a village and wreaks havoc. The angel makes tiny clay people come alive and then, for amusement, destroys them with a storm, a fire and an earthquake..." - Nicholas D. Kristof
Subjects: American Humorous stories, Fiction, Quotations, Social life and customs, United States in fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
