How long does it take to read I Am a Cat?
Natsume Sōseki, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson, Tyrol Kobata, Zack Davisson, Chiroru Kobata, Kan-ichi Ando
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson, Tyrol Kobata, Zack Davisson, Chiroru Kobata, Kan-ichi Ando takes about 7 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1905. 431 pages, about 118,525 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Written over the course of 1904 through 1906, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action ..."
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Japan, fiction, Poetry, Single Author, Modern fiction
