How long does it take to read La Curée?
La Curée by Émile Zola takes about 6 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Les Rougon-Macquart
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About 6 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1879. 381 pages, about 104,775 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction
