How long does it take to read Treasury of Great Short Stories?
Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, ANON
Treasury of Great Short Stories by Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, ANON takes about 11 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1984. 640 pages, about 176,000 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
WOODY ALLEN: No Kaddish for Weinstein FAY WELDON: Alopecia RAY BRADBURY: February 1999: Ylia MARY RENAULT: According to Celsus JOHN STEINBECK: Flight P. D. JAMES: Murder. 1986 WILKIE COLLINS: A Terribly Strange Bed ROALb DAHL: The Landlady ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Thrawn Janet IRIS MURDOCH: Something Special H. G. WELLS: The Stolen Bacillus REBECCA WEST: Parthenope GRAHAM GREENE: Mortmain F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The Baby Party MARGARET DRABBLE: The Reunion JAMES JOYCE: The Dead BERNICE RUBENS: The Blood of the Lamb STEPHEN KING: Suffer the Little Children RUTH RENDELL: The New Girlfriend D. H. LAWRENCE: Odour of Chrysanthemums ELIZABETH BOWEN: Mysterious Kör SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: Adventure of the Speckled Band S. J. PERELMAN: Strictly from Hunger DAPHNE DU MAURIER: Kiss Me Again, Stranger JEROME K. JEROME: The Dancing-Partner ROBERT GRAVES: The Viscountess and the Short-Haired Girl DOROTHY L. SAYERS: Suspicion P. G. WODEHOUSE: Pig-Hooo-o.ey! MURIEL SPARK: The Fathers' Daughters CHARLES DICKENS: The Signalman ANTONIA FRASER: Doctor Zeit MICHAEL FRAYN: Identity Crisis OSCAR WILDE: The Canterville Ghost RICHARD GORDON: Barnsfather's Syndrome E. M. FORSTER: The Machine stops VIRGINIA WOOLF: Lappin and Lapinova THOMAS HARDY: The Three Strangers JAMES HERRIOT: All Creatures Great and Small AGATHA CHRISTIE: The Red Signal EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Gold Bug H. E. BATES: The Station KINGSLEY AMIS: My Enemy's Enemy
Subjects: Short stories, fiction, Short horror story, cyanide, British and irish fiction, christian fiction
