How long does it take to read Aphrodite?
Pierre Louÿs, Jean-Paul Goujon, Prepared by Pierre Louys; Willis L. Parker, Georges Bess, Milo Manara
Aphrodite by Pierre Louÿs, Jean-Paul Goujon, Prepared by Pierre Louys; Willis L. Parker, Georges Bess, Milo Manara takes about 4 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1848. 260 pages, about 71,500 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 142 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This was "the only only complete English version extant" of a novel originally in French about a courtesan living in ancient Alexandria. The book is lavishly illustrated, but is sloppy in other ways. For instance, every time there is a full page illustration (and there are many) the page numbering skips, and the margins of the page are not evenly wide. This is the kind of book that you had to cut the pages with a knife before you could read it. You could call the story erotica, but it is no worse than The Decameron or Chaucer. It must have been pretty hot reading in 1906. The book has a page stating "This Edition on Large Paper is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No......" but nobody bothered to fill in the number, so I would guess that more than 1,000 of these were printed.
Subjects: Fiction, French Historical fiction, History, Greek Mythology, Goddesses, Pierre Louys
