About This Book
A Vintage Shorts selection. In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writerβs task and responsibility in two illuminating and essential pieces. Initially delivered as parts of lecture series and collected in The Source of Self...
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0h 38m
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180 WPM
0h 28m
average reader
250 WPM
0h 20m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 6,875 wordsπ
1 days at 30 min/day
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28 min
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Audiobook (1.5x)
31 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
46 min
Audio 2x
23 min
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