How long does it take to read Arabian Nights?
Arabian Nights by Scheherazade takes about 16 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 43 minutes
A long haul
First published 1932. 912 pages, about 250,800 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Canon (Literature), Short stories, Arabs, folklore, Arabs, Fairy tales, Tales
