How long does it take to read Justine?
Justine by Lawrence Durrell takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Alexandria Quartet
Next: Balthazar
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 254 pages, about 69,850 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 100 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Story of the modern Egyptian city of Alexandria, in which an Irish schoolmaster, a passionate, tormented Jewess, a Greek cabaret dancer, and a Coptic financier play out their destinies amid decadent surroundings symbolic of an erotic world. Justine, published in 1957, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's literary tetralogy, The Alexandria Quartet. The tetralogy consists of four interlocking novels, each of which recounts various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from differing points of view. The quartet is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s. The city itself is described by Durrell as becoming as much of a complex character as the human protagonists of the novels.
Subjects: Fiction, NOVELAS INGLESAS, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, general, Egypt, fiction, Man-woman relationships
