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How long does it take to read Mr Norris Changes Trains?

Christopher Isherwood

Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood takes about 3 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 53 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1935. 212 pages, about 58,300 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 29 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 53 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 26 minutes

The page count is the median across 44 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors, and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. As the worldwide economic Depression strangles the masses and the Communists make a desperate stand against Fascism and war, Norris sells himself as political orator, spy, and double agent. He also sells his friends"--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects: English fiction, Fiction, History, Nazis, Berlin (germany), fiction, Fiction, general

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