How long does it take to read She Came to Stay?
She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir takes about 7 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1943. 430 pages, about 118,250 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Françoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xavière catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Françoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction. Based on the author's actual relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre and Bianca Bienenfeld.
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction
