About This Book
In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood describes how she came to write her utopian, dystopian works. The word “utopia” comes from Thomas More’s book of the same name—meaning “no place” or “good place,” or both. In “Dire Cartographies,” from the essay collection...
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Reading Time Estimates
1h 6m
slow reader
180 WPM
0h 47m
average reader
250 WPM
0h 34m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 11,825 words📅 2 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
47 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
53 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
1 h 19 min
Audio 2x
39 min
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- 📅2 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇2 commutes of 30 min each