How long does it take to read A Swiftly Tilting Planet?
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle takes about 5 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Time Quintet
Previous: A Wind in the Door Next: Many Waters
About 5 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 278 pages, about 76,450 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg -- grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything" -- goes with him in spirit. But in overcoming the challenges, Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and will, as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all. - Publisher.
Subjects: Science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Space and time, Good and evil, Brothers and sisters, Murry family (Fictitious characters)
