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How long does it take to read Special Friendships?

Roger Peyrefitte

Special Friendships by Roger Peyrefitte takes about 8 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 6 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1945. 442 pages, about 121,550 words. Written for young adults.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 30 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 6 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 4 minutes

The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Novel about a romantic friendship/relationship between two French boys at a 1930s Jesuit boarding school.

Subjects: Gay teenagers, Fiction, Boarding schools, teenage homosexuality, LGTB., Amistad

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