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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A summer on Long Island. A mysterious millionaire. A dream that asks too much.

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3 hr 13 min

48,150 words · at 250 words per minute

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Mary Shelley

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

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Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami

Midnight's Children: A Novel

Salman Rushdie

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Haruki Murakami

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Toni Morrison

The god of small things

Arundhati Roy

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The Lost Hero

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Kazuo Ishiguro

The Son of Neptune

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East of Eden

John Steinbeck

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Joseph Smith Jr.

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Literature

Thus Spake Zarathustra

By Friedrich Nietzsche

Read a paragraph from Thus Spake Zarathustra to find your own reading time.

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Shelf

Literature

Length

89,873 words

Pages

About 359 (250 words per page)

Average pace

250 words per minute

Average reading time

5 hr 59 min

At 250 words per minute
Edition

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Translator: Thomas Common