How long does it take to read Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow?
Ray Bradbury, Robert M. Coates, Henry Kuttner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sidney B. Carroll, Ludwig Bemelmans, Shirley Jackson, Christine (Noble) Govan, Helen Eustis, Nigel Kneale, John Keir Cross, John Steinbeck, Josephine Johnson, John B. L. Goodwin, Wessel Hyatt Smitter, Roald Dahl, J. C. Furnas, Christopher Isherwood, William Sansom, John Cheever, Hortense Calisher, E. B. White, Jean Hrolda, Franz Kafka, Russell Maloney
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow by Ray Bradbury, Robert M. Coates, Henry Kuttner, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sidney B. Carroll, Ludwig Bemelmans, Shirley Jackson, Christine (Noble) Govan, Helen Eustis, Nigel Kneale, John Keir Cross, John Steinbeck, Josephine Johnson, John B. L. Goodwin, Wessel Hyatt Smitter, Roald Dahl, J. C. Furnas, Christopher Isherwood, William Sansom, John Cheever, Hortense Calisher, E. B. White, Jean Hrolda, Franz Kafka, Russell Maloney takes about 4 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 258 pages, about 70,950 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hour after westerly / Robert M. Coates -- Housing problem / Henry Kuttner -- Portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- None before me / Sidney Carroll -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Demon lover / Shirley Jackson -- Miss Winters and the wind / Christine Noble Govan -- Mr. Death and the redheaded woman (the rider on the pale horse) / Helen Eustis -- Jeremy in the wind / Nigel Kneale -- Glass eye / John Keir Cross -- Saint Katy the virgin / John Steinbeck -- Night Flight / Josephine W. Johnson -- Cocoon / John B.L. Goodwin -- Hand / Wessel Hyatt Smitter -- Sound Machine / Roald Dahl -- Laocoön Complex / J.C. Furnas -- I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood. Witnesses / William Sansom -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Heartburn / Hortense Calisher -- Supremacy of Uruguay / E.B. White -- Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- Note for the milkman / Sidney Carroll -- Eight Mistresses / Jean Hrolda -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Inflexible Logic / Russell Maloney.
Subjects: Science fiction, fiction Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction
