How long does it take to read Epitaph of a Small Winner?
Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis takes about 4 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1881. 242 pages, about 66,550 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 152 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Epitaph of a Small Winner, also known as The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, is a Brazilian novel in which the dead Brás Cubas narrates his own life from beyond the grave. He opens with his funeral and the cause of his death, a medical remedy he hoped would bring him fame, then turns to his youth as a wealthy, spoiled and cruel boy. Told in short, shifting chapters with playful, surreal touches, the book follows his loves, family conflicts, ambitions and philosophical encounters in Rio de Janeiro.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Romance brasileiro, Social life and customs, Dead, Fiction, Fiction, general, Autobiography
