How long does it take to read Delta Wedding?
a novel
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty takes about 4 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 32 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 247 pages, about 67,925 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Pretty Dabney Fairchild, only seventeen years old, is marrying her father's overseer. Throughout a long, dreamy week in the Delta, friends and relatives gather to prepare, to gossip, to reminisce, as the tangled vines of blood and memory tighten in a loving, inexorable grasp.
Subjects: Fiction, Weddings, Plantation life, Marriage, Family, Families
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