How long does it take to read A Spy in the House of Love?
Anaïs Nin, Anita Jarczok
A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin, Anita Jarczok takes about 2 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Cities of the Interior
Previous: The Four-Chambered Heart Next: Seduction of the Minotaur
About 2 hours 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1954. 136 pages, about 37,400 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out...
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, erotica, general, Social life and customs, Women, American Erotic stories, Sexual behavior
