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How long does it take to read City of Illusions?

Ursula K. Le Guin

City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1967. 208 pages, about 57,200 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 21 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and no memory to tell who — or what — he was. His eyes were not the eyes of a human. The forest people took him in and raised him almost as a child, teaching him to speak, training him in forest lore, giving him all the knowledge they had. But they could not solve the riddle of his past, and at last he had to set out on a perilous quest to Es Toch, the City of the Shining, the Liars of Earth, the Enemy of Mankind. There he would find his true self ... and a universe of danger.

Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Nevada, fiction

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