How long does it take to read Desperate Remedies?
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy takes about 8 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 450 pages, about 123,750 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 73 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the book:In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit. In the above-mentioned year, 1835, Ambrose Graye, a young architect who had just begun the practice of his profession in the midland town of Hocbridge, to the north of Christminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived in Bloomsbury.
Subjects: Fiction, Young women, Lady's maids, Man-woman relationships, Brothers and sisters, Identity
