How long does it take to read Elantris?
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson takes about 11 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Cosmere
About 11 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 647 pages, about 177,925 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Elantris: gigantic, beautiful, radiant-----filled with powerful individuals who use their magical abilities to benefit all the people of Arelon. Yet each of these godlike beings was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of Shaod. Then, ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, feeble, leper-like creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling. The Shaod became a curse. Arelon's new capital city, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris, which its people do their best to ignore. Princess Sarene of Teod has come to Kae for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping also to find love. Sarene learns instead that Raoden has died, and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat from the imperial ambitions of Fjordell, a city filled with ruthless religious fanatics, and whose high priest, Hrathen, intends to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god. Now Sarene alone stands in his way. But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspects the truth about Prince Raoden's disappearance. Taken by the same strange malady that felled the gods of Elantris, Raoden was secretly imprisoned within the dark city. His struggle to create a society for the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and reveal the secret of Elantris itself. -- From the hardback inside cover
Subjects: Princes, Blessing and cursing, Fiction, Princesses, City and town life, Fiction, fantasy, epic
