How long does it take to read Company of Liars?
A Novel
Karen Maitland
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland takes about 8 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 465 pages, about 127,875 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales--an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all--propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Travelers, Fiction, Black Death, Historical Fiction, History, Fiction, suspense
