How long does it take to read The Wind's Twelve Quarters?
Short Stories
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a collection containing, among other stories, the short story that started the Earthsea series." Along with "The Rule of Names," the story establishes the world and characters of Earthsea. First published in 1964 in an issue of Fantastic, the story can be found in a handful of anthologies but can be hard to lay hands on.
Subjects: American Science fiction, English Short stories, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, science fiction, general, English Shortstories
