How Long Does It Take to Read the Classics?

Long Does lt Take TO TO READ THE CLASSICS? How FIFTY OF THE MOST POPULAR LITERARY CLASSICS ORGANIZED BY YEAR, WORD COUNT, AND TIME IT WOULD TAKE TO READ EACH, BASED ON THE ADULT READING AVERAGE OF 300 WORDS PER MINUTE. 30 WC: 530,982 NOTE: Each book is at least 1 inch tall, regardless of reading time, with proportional height after the first inch. 25 WC: 395,560 20 WC: 42,160 15 WC: 16,511 WC: 87,978 WC: 51,460 WC: 28.944 WC: 24,545 WC: 30,557 WC: 17,121 WC: 63,604 WC: 183.349 10 WC: 173,000 WC: 148,800 WC: 155,887 WC: 155,960 WC: 107,945 WC: 99,200 WC: 135,420 WC: 119.394 WC: 123,380 Publication Year 30 25 WC: 84,320 WC: 418,053 WC: 211,591 20 WC: 349,736 WC: 19.840 WC: 29,160 15 WC: 109,571 WC: 63,766 WC: 95,022 WC: 69,066 WC: 46,118 WC: 59,900 WC: 109,571 WC: 47,094 WC: 29,760 WC: 183,833 WC: 177,227 10 WC: 97,364 WC: 39,680 WC: 66,950 WC: 49,459 WC: 80,396 wC: 82,762 WC: 73,404 WC: 109,571 WC: 99,121 WC: 88,942 Publication Year Design by Alisa Scott. © TheVisualCommunicationGuy.com | 2017 Reading Time in Hours Reading Time in Hours Alice's Adventures in 1865 Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass The Odyssey 008- Crime and Punishment 998 1595 AMidsummer Night's Dream 1595 Romeo and Juliet Hamlet 009 Macbeth 909 1811 Sense and Sensibility Little Women 1868 1813 Pride and Prejudice The Adventures of 1876 Tom Sawyer Mansfield Park 1814 Anna Karenina Emma 1815 1877 1817 Northanger Abbey 1817 Persuasion 1882 Treasure Island 1818 Frankenstein The Adventures of 1884 Huckleberry Finn Oliver Twist 1838 1886 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Picture of 0681 Dorian Gray 1843 A Christmas Carol Dracula 1897 The Count of 1908 Anne of Green Gables 1844 The Secret Garden Monte Cristo 1911 1925 The Great Gatsby 1932 Brave New World The Three 1844 Musketeers Gone with 1847 Wuthering Heights · 1936 the Wind 1850 The Scarlet Letter Moby-Dick; or The Whale 1851 1937 Of Mice and Men 1937 The Hobbit 1859 A Tale of Two Cities The Grapes of Wrath 1939 1860 Great Expectations 1943 The Little Prince The Diary of a Young Girl 1947 1984 1949 The Catcher 1951 in the Rye 1952 The Old Man and the Sea 1953 Fahrenheit 451 The Fellowship of the Ring Les Misérables 1954 1862 1954 Lord of the Flies To Kill a 0961 Mockingbird 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five REFERENCES Blue. "Great Novels and Word Count." Indefeasible, 11 Aug. 2008, indefeasible.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/great-novels-and-word-count/. Accessed 9 May 2017. Mineart, Hawthorn. "Word Count for Famous Novels (Organized)." Commonplacebook.com, 22 Nov. 2011, Commonplacebook.com/art/books/word-count-for-famous-novels/. Accessed 9 May 2017. Maloney, Evan. "You can't speed read literature. The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 15 Dec. 2009, www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/dec/14/you-can-t-speed-read-literature. Accessed 9 May 2017. "Popular Classic Books. Goodreads, 2017, www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/classic. Accessed g May 2017. "Reading Length How long will it take to read that book?" Reading Length Site Wide Activity RSS, 2017. www.readinglength.com/. Accessed 9 May 2017. "Shakespeare's plays, listed by number of words." Complete list of Shakespeare's plays, by number of words : Open Source Shakespeare, 2003, www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/plays_numwords.php. Accessed g May 2017.