How Long to Read The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

How Long Does it Take to Read The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 17 minutes to read The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

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The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien I suppose there is no one of us who can honestly deny that he is interested in one way or another in the American short story. Indeed, it is hard to find a man anywhere who does not enjoy telling a good story. But there are some people born with the gift of telling a good story better than others, and of telling it in such a way that a great many people can enjoy its flavor. Most of you are acquainted with some one who is a gifted story-teller, provided that he has an audience of not more than one or two people. And if you chance to live in the same house with such a man, I think you will find that, no matter how good his story may have been when you first heard it, it tends to lose its savor after he has become thoroughly accustomed to telling it and has added it to his private repertory. A writer of good stories is really a man who risks telling the same story to many thousand people. Did you ever take such a risk? Did you ever start to tell a story to a stranger, and try to make your point without knowing what sort of a man he was? If you did, what was your experience? You decided, didn't you, that story-telling was an art, and you wondered perhaps if you were ever going to learn it. The American story-teller in the magazines is in very much the same position, except that we have much more patience with him. Usually he is a man who has told his story a good many times before. The first time he told it we clapped him on the back, as he deserved perhaps, and said that he was a good fellow. His publishers said so too. And it was a good story that he told. The trouble was that we wanted to hear it again, and we paid him too well to repeat it. But just as your story became rather less interesting the twenty-third time you told it, so the stories I have been reading more often than not have made a similar impression upon me. I find myself begging the author to think up another story. Of course, you have not felt obliged to read so many stories, and I cannot advise you to do so. But it has made it possible for me to see in some sort of perspective, just where the American short story is going as well as what it has already achieved. It has made me see how American writers are weakening their substance by too frequent repetition, and it has helped me to fix the blame where it really lies. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

How long is The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story?

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien is 194 pages long, and a total of 49,276 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 29 minutes to read The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story aloud.

What Reading Level is The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story?

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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