How long does it take to read Understanding Fiction -- Second Edition?
Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Francis Parkman, Christopher Sykes, Mark Twain, Peter Quennell, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, O. Henry, John Collier, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Ring Lardner, Isaac Babel, Luigi Pirandello, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, James Purdy, Caroline Gordon, Mary Mc Carthy, Carson McCullers, Honoré de Balzac, Jesse Stuart, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, William Sansom, Colette, Saul Bellow, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Isak Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, Dino Buzzati, Marcel Aymé, Thomas Mann, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter
Understanding Fiction -- Second Edition by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Francis Parkman, Christopher Sykes, Mark Twain, Peter Quennell, Hanson Weightman Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, O. Henry, John Collier, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Ring Lardner, Isaac Babel, Luigi Pirandello, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, James Purdy, Caroline Gordon, Mary Mc Carthy, Carson McCullers, Honoré de Balzac, Jesse Stuart, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, William Sansom, Colette, Saul Bellow, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Isak Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, Dino Buzzati, Marcel Aymé, Thomas Mann, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter takes about 12 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1959. 688 pages, about 189,200 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Attack on the Fort Sir Tatton Sykes Captain Isaiah Sellers Lady Blessington RMS. Titanic The Man Who Would Be King The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Lottery The Girls in Their Sunnner Dresses The Furnished Room De Mortuis The Necklace Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A Piece of Neus I See You Never Haircut Crossing into Poland War The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Tennessee's Partner Araby The Drunkard The Lament Tickets, Please Eventide Old Red Cruel and Barbarous Treatment A Domestic Dilennna Christ in Flanders Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book Love The Killers The Fly I Want to Knou Why The Adulterous Woman A Rose for Emily A Good Man Is Hard to Find In the Penal Colony Through the Quinquina Glass The Bitch A Father-to-Be The Fight The Far and the Near The Sensible Thing A Christmas Memory Realpolitik The Sailor Boy's Tale Amy Foster The Killing of the Dragon Dermuche Disorder and Early Sorro•-w No Place for You, My Love 1 Write Goodbye, My Brother What Happened Noon Wine Blackberry Winter
Subjects: History and criticism, Short stories, Fiction, tradition, change, death
