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 writer’s 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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Reading Time Estimates
38m
slow reader
180 WPM
28m
average reader
250 WPM
20m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 6,875 words📅 1 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
28 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
31 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
46 min
Audio 2x
23 min
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