How long does it take to read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption?
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King takes about 3 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 185 pages, about 50,875 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King from his 1982 collection Different Seasons, subtitled Hope Springs Eternal. The novella has also been published as a standalone book. The story is entirely told by the character Red, in a narrative he claims to have been writing from September 1975 to January 1976, with an additional chapter added in spring 1977.
Subjects: fiction, prisoners, prisons, Maine, fiction, Fiction, general
