How long does it take to read Peer Gynt?
a dramatic poem
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen takes about 4 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1867. 242 pages, about 66,550 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 111 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Peer Gynt is a charming but lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to seek his fortune. Confident of success, he has one disastrous adventure after another. In one, he attends the wedding of a wealthy young woman he himself might have married. There he meets Solveig, who falls in love with him.
Subjects: Drama, Peer Gynt (Fictitious character), Norwegian drama, Film adaptations, Norwegian National characteristics, Peasants
