How long does it take to read A Tale of Time City?
A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 336 pages, about 92,400 words. Written for children.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.
Subjects: Fiction, Science fiction, Time travel, Guidebooks, Juvenile fiction, Ghost stories
