How long does it take to read The Norton Anthology of World Literature?
Martin Puchner, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson
The Norton Anthology of World Literature by Martin Puchner, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson takes about 27 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 27 hours 8 minutes
A long haul
First published 2012. 1,480 pages, about 407,000 words.
55 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 45 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 27 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with new selections and translations of major works. As always, the Norton provides hundreds of literary selections, helpful apparatus, and beautiful illustrations. --
Subjects: Literature, collections, Collections
