How long does it take to read Fear?
Fear by Stefan Zweig takes about 1 hour 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 37 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1925. 88 pages, about 24,200 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 59 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Irene Wagner has been married for eight years and is tired of her bourgeois and predictable existence as wife and mother. She starts an affair with an up-and-coming young pianist but finds herself being blackmailed by her lover's former mistress ... Irene is soon in the grip of an agonizing fear." "Written in the spring of 1913, and first published in 1920, this novella is one of Stefan Zweig's most powerful studies of a woman's mind and emotions. Roberto Rossellini's film La paura (1954) was based on this novella." --Book Jacket.
Subjects: Fiction, psychological, Adultery, Fiction, Housewives, Extortion
