How long does it take to read Money?
Émile Zola, Ernest Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Max Maurey, Kendall Warren
Money by Émile Zola, Ernest Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Max Maurey, Kendall Warren takes about 8 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 18 of Les Rougon-Macquart
Previous: Bête Humaine Next: La Débâcle
About 8 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1891. 445 pages, about 122,375 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 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 56 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful new bank and speculation on the stock market; Saccard meanwhile conducts his love life as energetically as he does his business, and his empire is seemingly unstoppable. Saccard, last encountered in The Kill (La Curée) in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes. - Back cover.
Subjects: French drama, Fiction, Banks and banking, History, Fiction, general, Prices
