How long does it take to read Pale Fire?
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov takes about 5 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1945. 315 pages, about 86,625 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 59 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
Subjects: Immigrants, Fiction, Kings and rulers, Assassination, American poetry, Kings and rulersxAssassination
