How long does it take to read The Portable Dorothy Parker?
Dorothy Parker, Brendan Gill
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker, Brendan Gill takes about 11 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1973. 610 pages, about 167,750 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Collection of Parker's stories, poems, essays. It's a small size, but wow, is it full of her great writing! Someone stole my copy, and I'm missing her humor and instinct for saying it like it is, or was, during her days with the Algonquin Round Table. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from Esquire, and the complete Constant Reader, her collected New Yorker book reviews. - Back cover.
Subjects: men problems, poetry, short stories, American - General, Non-Classifiable, Sale Books
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