How long does it take to read National Velvet?
Enid Bagnold
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1900. 288 pages, about 79,200 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A fourteen-year-old English girl wins a horse in a raffle, trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase.
Subjects: Horses, Grand National Handicap Steeplechase, Teenage girls, Juvenile fiction, Horse racing, Fiction
