How long does it take to read The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Sixth Shorter Edition?
R. V. Cassill, Richard Bausch, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Sixth Shorter Edition by R. V. Cassill, Richard Bausch, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov takes about 18 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 53 minutes
A long haul
First published 2000. 1,030 pages, about 283,250 words.
38 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 31 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A bestseller from first publication, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction has been adopted in over 750 schools in its Fifth Edition. From the start, it has offered students the writer's voice, pure and unencumbered by excessive editorial commentary. This new Sixth Edition continues to abide by R.V. Cassill's initial plan: "to put together a very large group of stories that would, in detail and overall design, express both the living tradition of short fiction and the culture of which it is a part."
Subjects: Short stories, Fiction, History, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging
