How long does it take to read Proof?
David Auburn
Proof by David Auburn takes about 1 hour 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 31 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2001. 83 pages, about 22,825 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of mathematics.". "On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind.". "As Catherine confronts Hal's affections and Claire's plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father's madness - or genius - will she inherit?"--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Death, Drama, Mathematicians, Man-woman relationships, Fathers, Man-woman relationships--drama
