How Long to Read The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set

How Long Does it Take to Read The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set?

It takes the average reader 26 hours and 27 minutes to read The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer

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

Description

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

How long is The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set?

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer is 1,581 pages long, and a total of 396,831 words.

This makes it 534% the length of the average book. It also has 485% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 36 hours and 8 minutes to read The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set aloud.

What Reading Level is The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set?

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set 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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