How Long to Read The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 12 minutes to read The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories by Elia W. Peattie

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

Description

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was an American author, journalist and critic. She stopped attending school when she was fourteen, but kept up a reading habit. In 1883 she married Robert Burns Peattie, a Chicago journalist. She began writing short stories for newspapers, and became a reporter with the Chicago Tribune and subsequently the Chicago Daily News. In 1889 she moved to Omaha, becoming chief editorial writer on the Omaha World-Herald. She wrote for magazines including Century, Lippincottas Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, St. Nicholas, Wide Awake, The American, America, Harperas Weekly, and San Francisco Argonaut. In 1888 she was commissioned by Chicago publishers to write a young peopleas history of the United States, and wrote the seven-hundred page The Story of America in four months. Her novel The Judge won a $900 prize from the Detroit Free Press in 1889, and was subsequently published in book form. Later in 1889 the Northern Pacific Railroad employed her to visit and report on Alaska: A Trip Through Wonderland became a popular guide-book. With Scrip and Staff (1891) was a story of the childrenas crusade.

How long is The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories?

The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories by Elia W. Peattie is 72 pages long, and a total of 18,144 words.

This makes it 24% the length of the average book. It also has 22% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 39 minutes to read The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories?

The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Stories is suitable for students ages 8 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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