How long does it take to read A Glastonbury Romance?
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys takes about 20 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 32 minutes
A long haul
First published 1932. 1,120 pages, about 308,000 words.
42 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 34 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First published in 1932, here is John Cowper Powys's masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity. In it he interweaves the ancient with the modern as he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mystical tradition from the most remote past of human history - the legend of the Grail - to create a book of astonishing scope and beauty. Panoramic in design, charged with scenes of great vividness and informed by Powys's own towering genius, A Glastonbury Romance is still astounding readers.
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