How long does it take to read In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower?
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust takes about 10 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 558 pages, about 153,450 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A new translation of the second volume of "In Search of Lost Time" captures the intricacies and challenges of male and female adolescence and awakening love, based on the narrator's reminiscences about Paris and the Normandy coast.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Villages, Fiction, historical, general, France, fiction
