How long does it take to read Darconville's Cat?
Alexander Theroux
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux takes about 12 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1981. 704 pages, about 193,600 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Darconville (and his cat Spellvexit) go to teach in an all girl's school (Quinsy College) in Virginia; he is fated to fall in love with a freshman student, Isabel, "Isabel, Isabel Isabel . . . " "Darconville repeated the name into the unintelligability we call sleep - and dreamt of desperadoes." Full of prose that will boggle one's mind, his characters jump out at one with a full personality. A read, a lovely read.
Subjects: Authors, College teachers, Courtship, Elegant Prose, English teachers, Fiction
