How long does it take to read Melmoth the Wanderer?
Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin takes about 9 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 54 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1820. 540 pages, about 148,500 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 105 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In a satanic bargain, Melmoth has sold his soul in exchange for immortality and now preys on the helpless in their darkest moments, offering to ease their suffering if they will take his place and release him from his tortured wanderings. His story is pieced together by those who have glimpsed his eerie existence over the centuries--from a prisoner in the clutches of the Spanish Inquisition to a man incarcerated in a London lunatic asylum."--
Subjects: Fiction, Immortalism, Immortalism in fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Long Now Manual for Civilization
