How long does it take to read Gormenghast?
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake takes about 9 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Gormenghast trilogy
Previous: Titus Groan Next: Boy in Darkness
About 9 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1950. 511 pages, about 140,525 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Titus Groan is seven, Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral stairacse to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder"--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Castles, Inheritance and succession, Nobility, Fiction
