Practice question · Numerical answer
How many pages, approximately to the nearest fifty, does Ulysses take to narrate its single day?
Hints
- Somewhere between seven hundred and eight hundred.
- About 730 in most editions.
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730 (answers within ±60 count)
Why
About 730, which works out at roughly forty pages per hour of story. The precise figure varies by edition; the ratio is what matters, and no earlier novel had attempted anything close to it.
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