How long does it take to read A House-Boat on the Styx?
Being Some Account of the Diverse Doings of the Associated Shades
John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell, Ohn Kendrick Bangs
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell, Ohn Kendrick Bangs takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1895. 171 pages, about 47,025 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 192 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.
Subjects: Fiction, Houseboats, Fiction, fantasy, historical, styx, Fiction, general, Fiction, satire
