How long does it take to read Old Filth?
Old Filth by Jane Gardam takes about 5 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Old Filth
Next: The Man in the Wooden Hat
About 5 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 289 pages, about 79,475 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The title, first of all, is an acronym, and stands for "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong." Old Filth -- or Dear Old Filth, when the story starts -- is Sir Edward Feathers, a wealthy old Englishman. As a penniless young man, Eddie Feathers left postwar London and made a magnificent fortune -- "a great stack of money" -- as a Hong Kong barrister, retiring as a judge and returning to England to live out his days.
Subjects: Fiction, Reminiscing, Asians, Fiction, general, Lawyers, fiction, Legal stories
