How long does it take to read Understanding Fiction?
Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov
Understanding Fiction by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov takes about 11 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1943. 608 pages, about 167,200 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 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: History and criticism, Short stories, Fiction, History, Juvenile audience, civil war
