How long does it take to read The Norton Anthology of English Literature --Seventh Edition -- Volume 2A?
M. H. Abrams, Mrs. Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, William Blake, Mary Robinson, Robert Burns, Mary Wollstonecraft, Joanna Baillie, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas Moore, Thomas De Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, Mary Shelley, L. E. L.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature --Seventh Edition -- Volume 2A by M. H. Abrams, Mrs. Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, William Blake, Mary Robinson, Robert Burns, Mary Wollstonecraft, Joanna Baillie, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas Moore, Thomas De Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, Mary Shelley, L. E. L. takes about 20 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 23 minutes
A long haul
First published 2000. 1,112 pages, about 305,800 words.
41 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 33 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.