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At a glance
English work of Japanese horror and entomology.
- Author
- Lafcadio Hearn1850–1904
- First published
- 1904
- Original language
- English
- Genre
- Gothic fiction
- Readers
- Adult
- Length
- Shortunder 40,000 words
How long it takes to read
About 2 h 29 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h as an audiobook.
| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
|---|---|---|
| Careful200 words a minute | 3 h 6 min | 7 days |
| Average250 words a minute | 2 h 29 min | 5 days |
| Fast300 words a minute | 2 h 4 min | 5 days |
Kwaidan
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- Words in the text
- 37,252
- Dialogue
- 26%of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence
- 21.5 words
- Vocabulary
- 432 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.
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Questions
How many words is Kwaidan?
Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn has 37,252 words.
How long does it take to read Kwaidan?
About 2 h 29 min at 250 words a minute, or 4 h as an audiobook.
How many days to read Kwaidan at 30 minutes a day?
About 5 days at an average reading speed.
Who wrote Kwaidan?
Kwaidan was written by Lafcadio Hearn and first published in 1904.
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