How long does it take to read Twice-Told Tales?
Gerard A. Barker, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Mansfield, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Seabough, Mark Twain, Frank O'Connor, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Elizabeth Bowne, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Conrad Aiken, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Paule Marshall, Eudora Welty, Dan Jacobson, Isaak Babel, Ralph Ellison, John Barth
Twice-Told Tales by Gerard A. Barker, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Mansfield, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Seabough, Mark Twain, Frank O'Connor, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Elizabeth Bowne, Shirley Jackson, James Baldwin, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Conrad Aiken, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Paule Marshall, Eudora Welty, Dan Jacobson, Isaak Babel, Ralph Ellison, John Barth takes about 7 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 403 pages, about 110,825 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
To build a fire, version 1 / Jack London -- To build a fire, version 2 / Jack London -- An account of the tragic death of the Willey Family -- The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The child-who-was-tired / Katherine Mansfield -- Sleepy / Anton Chekhov -- From "Tricks and Defeats of Sporting Genius" / Samuel Seabough -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras country / Mark Twain -- Repentance / Frank O'Connor -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- The death in the forest / Sherwood Anderson -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The geranium / Flannery O'Connor -- Judgement / Flannery O'Connor -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 1 / D.H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 3 / D.H. Lawrence -- Odour of chrysanthemums, version 2, the ending / D.H. Lawrence -- The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant -- Paste / Henry James -- Boule de Suif / Guy de Maupassant -- The heroine / Isak Dinesen -- That evening sun / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The secert miracle / Jorge Luis Borges -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- A little companion / Angus Wilson -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bown -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The phantom lover, two excerpts -- Dry September / William Faulkner -- Going to meet the man / James Baldwin -- The basement room / Graham Greene -- Next door / Kurt Vonnegut -- William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The eyes / Edith Wharton -- Life isn't a short story / Conrad Aiken -- The potato elf / Vladimer Nabokov -- A painful case / James Joyce -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Death of a travelling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Beggar my neighbor / Dan Jacobson -- Awakening / Isaac Babel -- Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The judgement / Franz Kafka -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- Night-sea journey / John Barth.
Subjects: Satanism, Fiction, short story, Puritans, catechism, Short stories
