How long does it take to read The Norton Anthology of African American Literature?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, Cheryl A. Wall
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, Cheryl A. Wall takes about 29 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 29 hours 55 minutes
A long haul
First published 2014. 1,632 pages, about 448,800 words.
60 days (about 9 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 49 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 29 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 18 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: African American authors, African Americans, Literary collections, Schwarze, Literatur
