How long does it take to read The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition?
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill, Sherwood Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Margaret Atwood
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition by Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill, Sherwood Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Margaret Atwood takes about 17 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 4 minutes
A long haul
First published 2006. 931 pages, about 256,025 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stories I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson Death by Landscape Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood Sonny's blues / James Baldwin Gorilla, my love Related: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara Snow / Ann Beattie Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges Miriam /Truman Capote Cathedral Related: Carver, From on writing / Raymond Carver Paul's case Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa Cather Enormous radio / John Cheever Lady with the dog Related: Chekhov, Letter to DV Grigorovich Letter to A S Suvorin / Anton Chekhov Story of an hour / Kate Chopin Heart of darkness Related: Conrad, Preface to the nigger of the Narcissus'' Letter to Barrett H Clark Barry Hannah on heart of darkness C P Sarvan, Racism and the heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar Open boat Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard Allan Gurganus on the open boat Charles C Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Stephen Crane Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat Intruder / Andre Dubus King of the bingo game Related: Ellison, an interview / Ralph Ellison Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich Barn burning Rose for Emily Related: Faulkner, an interview / William Faulkner Babylon revisited / F Scott Fitzgerald Great falls Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's Management of grief / Richard Ford Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer Young Goodman Brown Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants Related: Frederick Busch on hills like white elephants Hemingway, an interview / Ernest Hemingway Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston Araby Dead Related: C C Loomis, Jr., structure and sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / James Joyce Metamorphosis Hunger artist Related: Stanley Corngold…
Subjects: Short stories, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative
