How long does it take to read Difficult Loves?
Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino takes about 4 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 252 pages, about 69,300 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 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Cuentos italianos, Fiction, short stories (single author), Italy, fiction
