How long does it take to read The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition?
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Alice Walker, Richard Wright
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Alice Walker, Richard Wright takes about 21 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 21 hours 19 minutes
A long haul
First published 2010. 1,163 pages, about 319,825 words.
43 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 35 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 21 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Collection contains: Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old father, old artificer / Alison Bechdel -- The rememberer / Aimee Bender -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- August 2026: There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- Cathedral; A small, good thing ; What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case / Willa Carter -- Water names / Lan Samantha Chang -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling / Anton Chekhov -- Désiré́e's baby; Story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Open boat / Stephen Crane -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz -- Battle royal / Ralph Ellison -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- Rose for Emily; That evening sun / William Faulkner -- Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Homage / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- Church cancels cow / Amy Hempel -- Things you should know / A. M. Homes -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Who's Irish? / Gish Jen -- White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Bad neighbors / Edward P. Jones -- Araby; Dead / James Joyce -- Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Nawabdin electrician / Daniyal…
Subjects: Short story, Short stories, American Horror tales, Children's fiction, Crime, Crime fiction
