How long does it take to read Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable?
E. Cobham Brewer
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer takes about 21 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 21 hours 13 minutes
A long haul
First published 1870. 1,157 pages, about 318,175 words.
43 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 35 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 21 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Encompasses real, fictitious, and mythical names from history, romance, the arts, science, and fable, and phrases, superstitions, and customs ancient and contemporary.
Subjects: Dictionaries, Allusions, Dictionaries, indexes, Fables, Mythology, Terms and phrases
