How Long to Read Modern Essays

By John Macy

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Essays?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Modern Essays by John Macy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Thirty-three epitomal English and American personal essays chosen by a novelist who conceived the reader of his anthology as "a friend spending the evening in happy gossip along the shelves." Selected by Christopher Morley "American Literature" by John Macy "Mary White" by William Allen White "Niagara Falls" by Rupert Brooke "The Almost Perfect State" by Don Marquis "The Man-o'-War's 'Er 'Usband" by David W. Bone "The Market" by William McFee "Holy Ireland" by Joyce Kilmer "A Familiar Preface" by Joseph Conrad "On Drawing" by A. P. Herbert "O. Henry" by O. W. Firkins "The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc "The Student Life" by William Osler "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock "America and the English Tradition" by Harry Morgan Ayres "The Russian Quarter" by Thomas Burke "A Word for Autumn" by A. A. Milne "A Clergyman" by Max Beerbohm "Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians" by Stuart P. Sherman "Bed-Books and Night-Lights" by H. M. Tomlinson "The Precept of Peace" by Louise Imogen Guiney "On Lying Awake at Night" by Stewart Edward White "A Woodland Valentine" by Marian Storm "The Elements of Poetry" by George Santayana "Nocturne" by Simeon Strunsky "Beer and Cider" by George Saintsbury "A Free Man's Worship" by Bertrand Russell "Some Historians" by Philip Guedalla "Winter Mist" by Robert Palfrey Utter "Trivia" by Logan Pearsall Smith "Beyond Life" by James Branch Cabell "The Fish Reporter" by Robert Cortes Holliday "Some Nonsense About a Dog" by Harry Esty Dounce "The Fifty-First Dragon" by Heywood Broun

How long is Modern Essays?

Modern Essays by John Macy is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Essays Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Modern Essays aloud.

What Reading Level is Modern Essays?

Modern Essays is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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