How long does it take to read The World's Best Fairy Tales?
A Reader's Digest Anthology
The World's Best Fairy Tales by Reader's Digest takes about 11 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1967. 616 pages, about 169,400 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 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of sixty-nine well-known fairy tales from around the world, translated and gathered by recognized contributors to the field of folklore. Fairy Tales and other folk tales are among the oldest works of man. The most ancient stories in this book probably originated in Asia, then passed through Europe and Africa. And every people adapted the tales to their own life, shifting the details to fit local customs. Worn smooth by ages of telling, the stories acquired that distinctive conciseness of form and rapidity of movement which are among their principal charms.--Excerpt of Introduction..Pg. 5
Subjects: Reader's Digest Association, Belle Becker Sideman (Editor), Fritz Kredel (illustrator), Sixty-nine Fairy Tales, Children, Children's
