How long does it take to read The Short Story?
30 Masterpieces
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Gabriel García Márquez
The Short Story by Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, John Steinbeck, Shirley Jackson, Gabriel García Márquez takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 464 pages, about 127,600 words. Written for children.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener: a story of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- The pupil / Henry James -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Araby / James Joyce -- A hunger artist / Franz Kafka -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The secret miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The country husband / John Cheever -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The jewbird / Bernard Malamud -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Six feet of the country / Nadine Gordimer -- Sonny's blue / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- A & P / John Updike -- Where are you going? Where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates.
Subjects: Short stories, fiction, Satanism, short story, Puritans, catechism
