How long does it take to read Letters Home?
correspondence, 1950-1963
Letters Home by Sylvia Plath takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1975. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Forms a kind of autobiography of at least one aspect of Sylvia Plath's very complex life; it also coduments the flowering of abright young woman with promising talents into a full-blown genius, one of the greatest writers of this century.
Subjects: Correspondence, Mothers, American Authors, American Poets, Mothers and daughters, Authors, correspondence
