How long does it take to read Elective Affinities?
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe takes about 5 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1809. 305 pages, about 83,875 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 69 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Charlotte and Eduard, aristocrats with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious will, all four a drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation..."-- Publisher description.
Subjects: Fiction, general, German fiction, Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction
