How long does it take to read Evening Class?
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy takes about 9 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 520 pages, about 143,000 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teacher, an Irish woman who followed a married man to Italy and returned to Ireland on his death. A tale of one woman's gift for helping others. By the author of The Copper Beach.
Subjects: Fiction, Study and teaching, Teachers, Evening and continuation school students, Domestic fiction, Didactic fiction
