How long does it take to read Beauty and Sadness?
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata takes about 3 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 206 pages, about 56,650 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Authors, Ficción, Fiction, Jealousy, Women painters, Fiction, general
