How long does it take to read Palm-Wine Drinkard?
And His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town
Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola takes about 2 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 18 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1953. 125 pages, about 34,375 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Nigeria, fiction, Fiction, general, Yoruba (African people), Fiction, Wine and wine making, Yoruba (Peuple d'Afrique)
