How long does it take to read Gilgamesh?
David Ferry
Gilgamesh by David Ferry takes about 1 hour 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 49 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1992. 99 pages, about 27,225 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.
Subjects: Adaptations, Kings and rulers, Poetry, Epic poetry, American, Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian, American Epic poetry
