How long does it take to read Harriet?
Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins takes about 4 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1934. 267 pages, about 73,425 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Harriet has long been famous as one of the most powerful chillers ever written. Without blood, without violence, with nothing supernatural or melodramatic, it is filled with pure horror. Very quickly, the reader realizes that the charming people who surround Harriet are likely to become ruthless murderers. And this knowledge doubles the interest in each character. The hapless mother, who is vainly trying to prove that the guilty are guilty, is pitted against the cold-blooded, inexorable and twisted minds of her own relatives. The quiet, suffocating and thoughtless cruelty which the innocent and passionate Harriet suffers seems almost unbearable, until the dreadful climax is reached.
Subjects: Murder, Fiction, Death and burial, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
