How long does it take to read Jurgen?
Jurgen by James Branch Cabell takes about 5 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 5 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1919. 284 pages, about 78,100 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 259 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice," an entry in the Poictesme series, is an epic fantasy voyage as well as an erotic fable. Cabell himself wrote: "This fable is, as the world itself, a book wherein each man will find what his nature enables him to see; which gives us back each his own image; and which teaches us each the lesson that each of us desires to learn." Jurgen was banned for decades because of its explicit content. It was, and remains, a groundbreaking early fantasy novel and a worthy addition to the Wildside Fantasy Classics line.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Middle Ages, Devil, Wives, Poictesme (imaginary place), fiction
