How long does it take to read Nirmalā?
Nirmalā by Munshi Premchand takes about 3 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 207 pages, about 56,925 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 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nirmala is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand that follows a fifteen-year-old girl of the title. Her father, a lawyer, has arranged her marriage, but family circumstances leave her mother in financial hardship, and Nirmala ends up wed to a lawyer about twenty years older than she is. He is a widower with three sons, the eldest barely a year her senior. She meets her duties with respect rather than love. Through her situation, the book takes up dowry, mismatched marriages, and the narrow expectations placed on women in 1920s Indian society.
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Subjects: Fiction, Women, Marriage
