How long does it take to read Balthazar?
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Alexandria Quartet
Previous: Justine Next: Mountolive
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 250 pages, about 68,750 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 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 74 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.
Subjects: Fiction, Illegal arms transfers in fiction, Friendship in fiction, Married women in fiction, Friendship, Psychiatrists
