How long does it take to read Ladders to Fire?
Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Cities of the Interior
Next: Children of the Albatross
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1946. 189 pages, about 51,975 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anais Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career. Admitted into the fellowship of American novelists, she maintained the individuality of her literary style. She resisted realistic writing and drew on the experience and intuitions of her diary to forge a novelistic style emphasizing free association, the language of emotion, spontaneity, and improvisation. Ladders to Fire is the first volume of Nin's celebrated series of novels called Cities of the Interior.
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women, Fiction, Women, Social life and customs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Fiction, general
