It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning Southern author: “A fine writer and a distinguished book” (The New Yorker). When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from Mississippi as a uniquely original literary voice and a great American author. In her now-famous introduction to the collection, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that “there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that, splendid beginning that it is, it is only a beginning.” In this collection are many of the stories...
A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read A Curtain of Green aloud.
A Curtain of Green is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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