How long does it take to read Palace of Desire?
Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz takes about 7 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Cairo Trilogy
Previous: Sugar Street
About 7 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 433 pages, about 119,075 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women.
Subjects: Fiction, Cairo (egypt), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, general, Comics & graphic novels, general
