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How long does it take to read Gitanjali?

a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali

Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein, W. B. Yeats

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein, W. B. Yeats takes about 1 hour 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 1 hour 43 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1910. 94 pages, about 25,850 words. Written for children.

4 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 2 hours 52 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 1 hour 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 5 minutes

The page count is the median across 217 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.

Subjects: Bengali poetry, English poetry, Bengali Prose poems, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Songs, Children's songs

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