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The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
About This Book
The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York". The story concerns mainly Ethan Allen Hawley of Ne...
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Reading Time Estimates
6h 13m
slow reader
180 WPM
4h 28m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 12m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 67,100 wordsπ
9 days at 30 min/day
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4 h 28 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 58 min
at 1.5x narration speed
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7 h 27 min
Audio 2x
3 h 44 min
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- π 9 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
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