How long does it take to read Daisy Miller?
Daisy Miller by Henry James takes about 1 hour 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 23 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1877. 75 pages, about 20,625 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 244 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy because Daisy is too vivacious and flirtatious and neither belongs to, nor follows the rules of, their society. The novella is a comment on American and European attitudes towards each other and on social and cultural prejudice.
Subjects: Fiction, Americans, Young women, Americans in fiction, Young women in fiction, Europe in fiction
