How long does it take to read An Acceptable Time?
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle takes about 6 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Time Quintet
Previous: Many Waters
About 6 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 358 pages, about 98,450 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
Subjects: Druids and Druidism, Fiction, Space and time, Time travel, Love, Juvenile fiction
