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How long does it take to read A House and Its Head?

I. Compton-Burnett

A House and Its Head by I. Compton-Burnett takes about 5 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 5 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1935. 277 pages, about 76,175 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 28 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 5 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 10 minutes

The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Fiction, Widowers, Murder, Remarried people, Murder in fiction, Remarried people in fiction

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