It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics by Edwin Frank
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of the celebrated NYRB Classics series, now twenty years old. The collection brings together twenty-five pieces drawn from the more than five hundred books that have come out as NYRB Classics over the last twenty years. Stories, essays, interviews, poems, along with chapters from novels and memoirs and other longer narratives have been selected by Edwin Frank, the series editor, to chart a distinctive, entertaining, and thought-provoking course across the expansive and varied terrain of the Classics series.
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics by Edwin Frank is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.
This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics aloud.
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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