How long does it take to read La Joie de Vivre?
La Joie de Vivre by Émile Zola takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 12 of Les Rougon-Macquart
Previous: The Ladies' Paradise Next: Germinal
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1884. 441 pages, about 121,275 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
